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CLASS OF '84 

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Twenty-fifth Anniversary Book 




BOSTON 

THE EVERETT PRESS 

1909 



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Table of Contents. 

Members and Addresses 7 

Biographical Sketches 15 

Statistics 106 

Marriages and Children 107 

Necrology 118 

Retrospective Sketch 119 

Letters 127 

The Reunion of 1909 131 



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THE Secretary of the Class of '84 formerly published 
an annual directory, of which the last issue appeared 
in 1900. The present volume, commemorating the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of graduation, has been prepared on 
broader lines, with the object of reviewing the record of this 
quarter-century and of showing incidentally the effects of time 
and fortune, good or bad, on our respective countenances. In a 
class which has been so long and so widely scattered, it has nat- 
urally been difficult to secure completeness of autobiographical 
material, and still more of photographs. The committee is much 
indebted to those members of the Class who have assisted it, — 
often at no little inconvenience to themselves, — and ventures to 
hope that the results of its efforts may deserve their approba- 
tion; also that the small minority remaining may be heard from 
in time for our semi-centennial. 

H. W. Tyler, 
A. H. Gill, 
W. L. Puffer, 

Class Committee. 



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Members of the Class, 

THE following list includes the names of persons who 
entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 
the fall of 1880 as first-year students, and who remained 
at least until the end of the first term. It includes also persons 
who joined the Class at some later date with advanced standing, 
and certain others who, having entered earlier, took a consider- 
able proportion of their work with the Class. Some of those 
who entered with the Class took their degrees later than 1884, 
and may therefore have become associated with other classes 
as well as with our own. 

[The professional course at the Institute is denoted as follows: I., Civil 
Engineering; II., Mechanical Engineering; III., Mining Engineering; IV., 
Architecture; V., Chemistry; VIII., Physics; IX., Elective.] 

Charles L. Adams, II. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
Charles B. Appleton, S.B., II. 

Netherlands Road, Brookline, Massachusetts. 
Henry F. Baldwin, S.B., II. 

Died June 17, 1909. 
Fred L. Bardwell, S.B., V. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
T. Harris Bartlett, S.B., III. 

Lewiston Land Office, Lewiston, Idaho. 
Henry D. Bennett, I. 

85 Water Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Keshar M. Bhat, V. 

Ill Jogeshwari Lane, Poona, India. 

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Henry A. Boardman, S.B., V. 

126 Van Houten Avenue, Passaic, New Jersey. 
Ygnacio Bonillas, III. 

Pesqueira Street, No. 2, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. 
* Charles C. Bothfeld, S.B., I. 

12 1 8 Penobscot Building, Detroit, Michigan. 
Alfred F. Bridgman, I. 

I Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Walter H. Bunce, III. 

Ouray, Colorado. 
Oliver G. Burgess. 

Address unknown. 
George E. Cabot, VIII. 

60 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
William K. Callahan, II. 

Died May 10, 1907. 
W. Frank Carr, S.B., I. 

116 32d Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
Christopher J. Carven, S.B., I. 

49 City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Barrett L. Chandler, V. 

201 Emmett Street, Newark, New Jersey. 
RoscoE L. Chase, S.B., V. 

Arnold Print Works, North Adams, Massachusetts. 
Edward M. Cheney, IV. 

Died February 22, 1888. 
Daniel L. Coburn, V. 

177 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Henry S. Codman, II. 

Died January 13, 1893. 
Emma O. Conro, IX. 

301 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. 

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*Mr. Bothfeld died November 20, 1909. 



Ralph H. Damon, II. 

Care J. I. D. Bristol, i Madison Avenue, New York City. 
Samuel S. Dearborn, II. 

411 Marlboro Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Alfred O. Doane, S.B., III. 

I Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachusetts. 
T. Coleman du Pont, III. 

Wilmington, Delaware. 
Charles B. Emerson. 

San Juan, Porto Rico. 
Herbert C. Emery. 

Died April 13, 1909. 
Alfred L. Fitch, S.B., II. 

1 132 East Forty-fifth Street, Chicago, Illinois. 
Pah Liang Fong. 

Bureau of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, Mukden, 
Manchuria. 
D. Willis French. 

P. O. Box 98, Weehawken, New Jersey. 
George LeR. French, S.B., I. 

Winchester, Massachusetts. 
Augustus H. Gill, S.B., V. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
Robert R. Goodrich, S.B., II., III., S.M. 

University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. 
Frank M. Haines, S.B., III. 

Died June i, 1905. 
Hiram G. Hammett, II. 

1803 7th Avenue, Troy, New York. 
George H. Heywood, S.B., III. 

Died May 17, 1898. 
Edgar C. Hillyer, II. 

Raleigh, North Carolina. 

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James G. Holder, S.B., V. 

119 Broad Street, Lynn, Massachusetts. 
Henry D. Hooker, IV. 

17 Gramercy Park, New York City. 
I. Chester Horton, H. 

147 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Samuel M. Ilsley, IV. 

527 Marshall Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
George T. Jarvis, I. 

Care Rutland Railroad, Rutland, Vermont. 
Frank F. Johnson, III. 

First National Bank, Wallace, Idaho. 
William Parry Kennard, V. 

Died July 21, 1906. 
W. Hall Kerr, II. 

Died June 16, 1895. 
George F. Knapp, S.B., V. 

29 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio. 
Hein Chow Kwong. 

Died in 1889. 
King Young Kwong. 

Yueh-Han Railway, Canton, China. 
Anselm a. Lauriat. 

West Medford, Massachusetts. 
Laura A. Linton, M.D., V. 

Insane Hospital, Rochester, Minnesota. 
George F. Lull, I. 

Randolph, New York. 
Amy (Stantial) Lund, S.B., V. 

Died February 11, 1888. 
William J. Luther, I. 

153 Pleasant Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts. 

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David A. Lyle, S.B., III. 

Care Frank Berry, Depot'^Quartermaster's Office, Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania. 
Amy (Barnes) Maynard. 

Northborough, Massachusetts. 
Frederic S. Mead, III. 

35 North Market Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Edwin D. Mellen, V. 

Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
William C. Merryman, I. 

537 West 149th Street, New York City. 
Philip S. Morse, S.B., III. 

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. 
Frederick H. Newell, S.B., III. 

United States Reclamation Service, Washington, D. C. 
Orville R. Noble, II. 

Granville, Massachusetts. 
George H. Norris. 

186 East Water Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
William L. O'Brien, I. 

Died September 19, 1906. 
Herbert F. Otis, IV. 

Holland Road, Brookline, Massachusetts. 
Dean W. Park, III. 

Died May 5, 1909. 
Junius H. Penny. 

Address unknown. 
Clifford Perin. 

Died May 26, 1902. 
Samuel P. Poland, I. 

241 1 South Atherton Street, Berkeley, California. 
A. Stuart Pratt, IX. 

"j^i Highland Street, West Newton, Massachusetts. 

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Charles O. Prescott, S.B., V. 

Westford, Massachusetts. 
Walter B. Price. 

Address unknown. 
William L. Puffer, S.B., III. 

307 Equitable Building, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Arthur J. Purinton, S.B., II. 

Kendallville, Indiana. 
William J. Rich, S.B., III. 

1468 Clifton Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
C. Snelling Robinson, S.B., III. 

429 Wick Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio. 
Theodore W. Robinson, S.B., III. 

Commercial National Bank Building, Chicago, Illinois. 
A. Lawrence Rotch, S.B., II. 

131 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
J. Peterson Ryder, S.B., V. 

925 Farragut Terrace, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
Edward V. Sedgwick, II. 

Galena Signal Oil Company, Franklin, Pennsylvania. 
Yau Foke Sik. 

Died in 1882. 
Frederic L. Smith, I. 

Died June, 1892. 
Wallace B. Smith. 

Address unknown. 
Alfred Stebbins, S.B., III. 

95 Court Street, Newtonville, Massachusetts. 
Frederick M. Stuart, I. 

37 Knowles Street, Newton Centre, Massachusetts. 
Elliot T. Sturgis, S.B., III. 

125 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 

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MuN Wai Sung. 

1536 Wusung Road, Hongkew, Shanghai, China. 
Tada Bumi Torii. 

33, Obancho, Yotsuya, Tokio, Japan. 
Alice (Brown) Tyler, S.B., V. 

39 Gray ClifF Road, Newton Centre, Massachusetts. 
Harry W. Tyler, S.B., V. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
Se Chung Tyng. 

Address unknown. 
Frank H. Wakefield. 

Notification Clerk, House of Representatives, Washington, 
District of Columbia. 
John P. Walworth. 

Lawrence, Massachusetts. 
Nahum Ward, S.B., V. 

51 Claxton Street, Dorchester Centre, Massachusetts. 
John F. Weston, V. 

Care of War Department, Washington, D. C. 
Asa W. Whitney, V. 

939 Shelby Street, Bristol, Tennessee. 
William A. Whitney, S.B., I. 

Sunapee, New Hampshire. 
William M. Whitney, S.B., H. 

Winchendon, Massachusetts. 
Francis C. Williams, Jr., S.B., I. 

Sheridan, Wyoming. 
Seu Nam Yang. 

Died in 1882. 



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Biographical Sketches. 

[The following sketches are, with few exceptions, autobiographical, and 
are based on replies to an inquiry circular. While they naturally differ some- 
what widely in form and extent, it has seemed to the class committee inexpe- 
dient to modify them materially for the sake of greater uniformity.] 

Adams, Charles L. 

Associate Professor of Drawing and Descriptive Geometry, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Born November 26, 1856. Before coming to the Institute 
studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, the Art Mu- 
seum, and v^ith A. Oudinot, the French landscape-painter. 
My preparation for scientific work was gained in connection 
with several years' work in the City Surveyor's office, Boston, 
and from practical experience in civil engineering. I was 
called to the Institute in 1881 as instructor in mechanical 
drawing in the School of Mechanic Arts, and, in connection 
with teaching, took a special course in second and third year 
mechanical engineering. In 1887 I was made instructor in 
freehand drawing in the Institute, at the same time assisting 
in descriptive geometry. In 1903 I became assistant professor 
of drawing and descriptive geometry, and in 1904 was made 
associate professor. 

I have been specially interested in developing the study of 
freehand drawing in the Architectural Department, which 
includes a course in decorative design embodying the human 
figure. My writing includes a book on mechanical drawing 
and a work, in two parts, on descriptive geometry. With the 
exception of the past five years, I have found time to do con- 

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siderable painting, and have exhibited at most of the princi- 
pal exhibitions in this country. 

I certainly would "do it again," and would not prefer a 
college training alone, but regard the combination as desirable. 

My present weight is one hundred and sixty-eight pounds; 
circumference, thirty-seven inches; but the other question goes 
too far back. 

Appleton, Charles B. 
Mechanical Engineer. 
Brookline, Massachusetts. 

Born in Boston, October i, 1862. Married Marion Kings- 
bury, in Boston, October 12, 1886. 

Resided in Boston from 1881 to 1888; since in Brookline. 

When six years old, went abroad with my family and at- 
tended private schools in Florence and Dresden. Returned to 
Boston in 1875 and attended private schools in Roxbury and 
Cambridge; entered Cambridge High School in 1877, and 
M. 1. T. in 1880. 

After graduating in Course II., Mechanical Engineering, 
held the position of assistant in that department for a year. At 
that time and later was with various engineering concerns for 
varying lengths of time, including the Wire Rope Machinery 
Company and the Steel Cable Engineering Company, installing 
lifting and conveying machinery; also with E. D. Leavitt, Jr., 
and with the Atlantic Works. 

Enlisted as private in Troop A, National Lancers, ist Squad- 
ron Cavalry, M. V. M., in 1897, and have since held various 
grades therein, as corporal, sergeant, ist sergeant, 2d and 1st 
lieutenant. In 1908 graduated from a three years' course in 
the Service School for officers of the M. V. M. 

Am a member of the National Guard Association of Massa- 
chusetts, also of the following scientific and social societies and 
clubs: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of 
Arts, M. P. Club, M. I. T. Alumni Association, New England 

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Appleton 

Adams 

Baldwin 



Free Trade League, League of American Wheelmen, Appala- 
chian Mountain Club, University Club and Technology Club, 
both of Boston. 

Baldwin, Henry F. 

Chief Engineer, Oregon & Washington Railroad Co. 
Seattle, Washington. 

Born in Waterbury, Maryland, April 17, 1862. Married 
Paulina du Pont, February 12, 1895, in Louisville, Kentucky. 
Children: Paulina du Pont, born January 13, 1896; Henry du 
Pont, July 18, 1898; Margaretta du Pont, August 16, 1901. 

Since graduation have lived in Louisville and other places in 
Kentucky, in Florida, Alabama, New Jersey, Delaware, 
Chicago and Springfield, Illinois; and now in Seattle. 

Have held no positions except those in connection with my 
profession. Started in 1884 as a rodman on the Louisville & 
Nashville Railroad, and have held responsible positions, be- 
ginning as chief engineer of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois 
Railroad in 1889. Am a member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers, Western Society of Engineers, Signal Engi- 
neers' Association, and other technical societies; also of the 
Chicago Club, Chicago; Manhattan Club, New York; and 
Rainier Club, Seattle, Washington. 

My preparation for M. I. T. was obtained first in the public 
schools in Maryland and afterwards in a local academy in 
Maryland; then two years in a cotton-mill. 

The small amount of education that I obtained at the M. I. T. 
has been of the greatest service to me in the work that I have 
done. I have always used that education, and do not expect 
that anything will lead me to a different line of work. Yes, I 
would "do it again." I would certainly not prefer to have a 
college course instead. Naturally, a combination of college 
course with that of M. I. T. would have been better for me; but 
as between the two, and as a man cannot spend all his life in 
preparation, my boy will take the M. I. T. 

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Since graduation I have visited the Institute once, in 1906. 
and am sorry that the distance is too great for me to try to at- 
tend the reunion in 1909. 

[Since writing the above, Mr. Baldwin has died suddenly, of 
apoplexy, June 17, 1909.] 

Bardwell, Fred L. 

Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, M. I. T. 
Residence, 1 1 Chamblet Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts. 

Born September 2, 1858, in Excelsior, Minnesota. Married, 
June, 1886, to Lizzie M. Hodgdon, of Boothbay, Maine. Have 
one son, a student at Dartmouth College. 

The only offices held have been those connected with the 
church. Belong to no lodge or fraternity, but am a member of 
the American Chemical Society and the Society of Chemical 
Industry of London. 

Preparation for M. I. T. in the district school of native village 
and in the grammar and high school at Minneapolis, from which 
I graduated in 1876. Worked a year as shipping-clerk in manu- 
facturing business; then entered the University of Minnesota, 
graduated in 1881, and worked for another year at railroading. 
Entered M. I. T. in 1882. 

After graduation from the Institute was appointed assistant 
in chemistry, and, with the exception of one year (i 903-1 904) 
spent abroad, have taught continuously there; was made in- 
structor in 1886 and assistant professor in 1894. 

"Would you *do it again.?'" Do what.? come to "Tech," 
get married, teach, or what .? If you refer to occupation, 
which of us can truthfully say that he is so well satisfied with 
his career that he would gladly repeat it .? In general, the 
answer is, "Yes." Nevertheless, retrospection brings regrets 
and the wish that one might begin again, but with the experi- 
ence gained from the past. 

Present weight is one hundred and eighty-five pounds; cir- 
cumference of head, twenty-three inches ; waist, forty-two. 

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Bartlett, Thomas Harris. 

Register of the United States Land Office, Lewiston, Idaho. 

Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 30, 1863. Mar- 
ried Eugenia Smith, of Portland, Oregon, in 1891. Have one 
child, a daughter. 

After partial preparation for Harvard at Phillips Exeter 
Academy, entered the employ of Brewster, Basset & Company, 
brokers, Boston. 

After graduation at M. I. T. with the Class of '84, entered the 
engineer corps of the Northern Pacific Railroad, being employed 
in construction work until 1887, when I was appointed repre- 
sentative of the Northern Pacific Land Department at Portland, 
Oregon. Was thereafter graduated from the Law School of the 
University of Oregon, and admitted to the practice of law at the 
Oregon Bar in 1893. In 1896 became associated with Mr. W. B. 
Heyburn (now senator from Idaho) in law practice at Spokane. 
In 1899 moved to Grangeville, Idaho, where I was elected pros- 
ecuting attorney in 1904, resigning in 1906 to accept the appoint- 
ment of Register of the United States Land Office at Lewis- 
ton, which position I have since held. 

Bennett, Henry D. 

Real Estate, Insurance, Mortgages, 85 Water Street, Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts. 
Residence, 305 Walnut Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. 

Born September 6, 1862, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
Married, November 5, 1902, in Brookline, Massachusetts, to 
Suzanne Wheeler Pratt. One daughter, born July 13, 1906. 

Lived on Lee Street, Cambridge, until 1869, when my father 
moved to Washington Street, Brookline; moved from there in 
1882 to present address. 

Preparation for M. I. T., the Brookline High School and 
Chauncy Hall School. 

After leaving Technology practised civil engineering for a 

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year and a half in one of the large offices in Boston. Later took 
up the negotiating of mortgages on my own account, and grad- 
ually worked into the general real-estate business. My educa- 
tion at the Institute, and my experience afterwards in the 
field, has been of great assistance in my real-estate work, en- 
abling me to qualify in expert cases and to grasp more readily 
and understandingly the various technical problems as they 
come up. Shall always regret not having gone to college, be- 
cause in my day there was even less of student life at Technol- 
ogy than there is now, and the brushing up against men, es- 
pecially in dormitory life and athletic field, is of great value in 
after life. 

It seems to me that there is something about scientific study 
or thought which tends to make people preoccupied and, there- 
fore, not so inclined to sociability. 

Living near the Institute, I have visited it often, and am 
trying to keep more in touch with it now than ever before. 

During first year at Technology was orderly sergeant of the 
second company; more recently a member of the first house 
committee of Technology Club. Was governor of Boston Ath- 
letic Association for three years, having charge of the boat- 
ing department. For three years was fleet captain of the 
Eastern Yacht Club; later elected to the regatta committee. 
Have also been a director of the Real Estate Exchange and 
Auction Board for ten years, and for part of that time a mem- 
ber of the executive committee. Am now treasurer, and also 
a director, of the Cattle Fair Hotel, a land company, and vice- 
president of the Massachusetts State Board of Trade; a mem- 
ber of the election committee of the First Parish Club in Brook- 
line, belonging to the Unitarian Church; a member of the Coun- 
try Club, Brookline, the Exchange Club, Boston Athletic Asso- 
ciation, and the Eastern Yacht Club. 

My present weight is about one hundred and seventy-three 
pounds; waist measure, thirty-six inches. In 1884 they were 
one hundred and forty-three pounds, and thirty-four inches. 

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Bartlett 

Bennett 



I added about fifteen pounds of good solid weight during the 
fall of 1889 by gymnasium work and other general exercise, 
which I have kept up in a greater or less degree ever since, 
especially rowing, which I believe to be one of the best exer- 
cises and sports known. 

Bhat, Keshar M. 

Ill Jogeshwari Lane, Poona, India. 

Born in 1855, in India, where he received his early educa- 
tion. He left the Institute in January, 1883. In 1899 a letter 
was received from him from Poona, in which he stated that 
he had a son, Keshar Bhat, nineteen years of age, who had just 
finished his high-school course, and whom it was his intention 
to initiate in the dyeing business; he had had it in mind for 
some time to start a small dyeing-house, but, owing to famine 
and pestilence, which had ravaged the country for the past two 
years, it seemed unwise to do so at that time, and added: "It 
will not be out of place to make mention of the fact that the in- 
valuable practical knowledge I got at our beloved institution, 
and also from the factories round about Boston, has been of 
immense use to me, but for which I should not have been where 
I am. I have informed from time to time my classmates of '84 
as to how I fared in this land. The credit of clearing my char- 
acter — when people accused me of ill-spending my time and 
money in America — is to a very great extent due to the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology; and the credit of the success 
that I might or rather wish to achieve in my new undertaking, 
small though it is, will also be due to our institution; and there- 
fore I don't hesitate to call myself a son of Massachusetts In- 
stitute of Technology. I shall ever regard this institution, the 
very kind American friends and factory owners who helped me, 
with respect and reverence, as my Vedic religion teaches; for 
it says: * Respect him like your father who imparts you knowl- 
edge.' Convey these, my humble thoughts, to my American 
friends and classmates." — The Technology Review for li 

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BoARDMAN, Henry A. 

Superintendent of the Waldrich Bleachery, Delawanna, 

New Jersey. 
Residence, 126 Van Houten Avenue, Passaic, New Jersey. 

Born May 27, 1863, in Boston, Massachusetts. Unmarried. 

Graduated from the Melrose High School in 1880; entered 
the Institute that fall, and graduated May 27, 1884. 

After graduation retired to my suburban home to await the 
sharp competition among employers to secure my services, 
which I expected to ensue. Such competition failed to material- 
ize, and I "accepted" a position in a real-estate agent's office, 
the agent being absent on a vacation. During my engagement 
I was successful in renting no less than two tenement-houses, 
at a profit to my employer of about ^4.00. This did not quite 
cover my salary, but he expressed himself on his return as satis- 
fied with my services. At about this time I received a letter 
from the Silver Spring Bleachery at Providence, stating that 
they had requested the Institute to recommend them a graduate 
in chemistry and had been informed that I was the only grad- 
uate of '84 still unemployed. I have always felt grateful for this 
kindly recommendation, and also to my fellow classmates for 
getting employed so promptly; as otherwise I should probably 
have failed to receive the offer which was finally made me. I 
had been at Silver Spring only a few days when doubt was 
expressed as to my ability to give satisfaction. Possibly my 
somewhat evangelical appearance seemed unsuited to a bleach- 
ery. That I wore glasses caused much misgiving, the superin- 
tendent contending that the steam of the dye-house would con- 
dense upon them and make it impossible for me to see and 
match shades. I assured him that my glasses formed no per- 
manent part of my anatomy and could be removed at will. 
After three months' trial I was given charge of the dye-house 
and held this position for three years; was then made assistant 
superintendent, serving in this capacity seven years. Then re- 
ceived an offer of a similar position in the Aspinook Company 

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at Jewett City, Connecticut, where I was employed ten years, 
leaving in 1905 to become superintendent of the Waldrich 
Bleachery at Delawanna, New Jersey. 

As to "Would you do it again?" I answer "Yes,'' most 
heartily. There can be no doubt of the value of a technical 
education. It cannot be claimed of any technical school that it 
fully fits its graduates for practical work. There is still much to 
learn and some things to be unlearned. But if the graduate is 
blessed with a fair amount of common sense he will adapt him- 
self, sooner or later, to the conditions in which he finds him- 
self. At first it is diflRcult for him to realize that his education 
is incomplete; also, if he chances to engage in mill-work, that 
he must concentrate his energies on one branch of investigation 
or study. In other words, he must become a specialist. It 
must be confessed that the graduates, as a rule, do not easily 
become specialists. Much of the knowledge they have gained 
is not readily applicable to the things of every-day life. But 
they cling to it, notwithstanding. How can a man who has just 
scaled the heights of the higher mathematics and sounded all 
the depths and shoals of calculus be expected to take a dipper 
of dyestuff and dye patches of cloth, when any one without a 
particle of scientific knowledge could do the same .? And can 
any one make him believe there are mysteries and technical 
difficulties in his dipper of dyestuff and its application to cloth 
that, with all his learning, he will find much trouble in mastering .? 

Tech graduates, working under my direction, have some- 
times asked me of what use was their chemical or mathematical 
knowledge in the positions assigned them. I explained that 
their knowledge had a general bearing, and that it would aid 
them to gain a deeper insight into the underlying principles of 
their work than the uneducated workman could have. I also 
tried to make plain to them the necessity of readjusting their 
ideas to a practical basis. This adjustment was always a matter 
of time and, in some cases, so incomplete that the graduate 
never became of much practical use to his employer. It would 

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be very unfair to charge such failures to technical education. Pe- 
culiarities of natural disposition were accountable in most in- 
stances. It may, however, be well to consider if there is not 
some way by which technical colleges can give their graduates a 
clearer idea than they often have now of the obligations which 
exist between employer and employed. 

BONILLAS, YgNACIO. 

Mining Engineer and Surveyor. 
Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. 

Born in San Ignacio, Sonora, Mexico, February i, 1858. 
Married to Mary M. Borton, at Tucson, Arizona, June 29, 
1885. Children: Ygnacio SafFord, born June 15, 1887; Lola 
Cecile, born February 10, 1889; Victor, born January 19, 1892; 
Maria Martha, born May 27, 1893; Bertha, born February 16, 
1895, and Mario, born March 4, 1899. All living, with the ex- 
ception of one, Victor. 

Have resided in Tombstone, Arizona; Magdalena, Sonora, 
Mexico; and Nogales. 

Have held the scientific offices of Government Inspector and 
Surveyor of Mines in the District of Magdalena; Agent of Agri- 
culture and Commerce of the Department of Fomento for the 
same district; Government Appraiser of Mining and Milling 
Machinery for same district; Mining Deputy, City Engineer, 
Nogales; and Deputy Land and Mining Surveyor under De- 
partment of Fomento, Mexico. 

Have held business offices as president and engineer of the 
Nogales Water Company, Nogales, Arizona, and Compaiiia 
Proveedora de Agua, Nogales, Mexico. 

Political offices: Mayor of Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico; Gov- 
ernor (Prefect) District of Magdalena; Mayor of Nogales for 
two terms. Am a member of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers and The National Geographic Society. Belong to 
the Nogales Lodge No. 1 1, F. and A. M., and No. 2, A. O. U. W. 

Prepared for M. I. T. at Tucson, Arizona, under private 

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teachers, while teaching in the public schools of the city from 
1874 to 1880. 

Longfellow's characterization of life as "real, earnest" has 
ever been my own. From the time I was fourteen years old I 
had to support myself, mother, and sister. My student years at 
the Institute, and in the summer courses at Harvard, were 
dedicated entirely to as earnest work as I was capable of doing; 
so there was no time left, much to my regret, for social inter- 
course other than at lectures and laboratories. I have always 
felt deep gratitude for the kind treatment received from Pro- 
fessors Richards, Crosby, Niles, Nichols, Wing, and Ordway, 
and I avail myself of this opportunity to express it. 

My professional and business career since leaving M. I. T. 
has been a very busy one, and, I may add, not devoid of suc- 
cess, since I have no failures to record in anything I undertook. 

The education obtained at the Alma Mater has been my 
constant support, and the noble, personal example and earnest- 
ness of purpose of our professors produced upon me an ever- 
lasting impression. 

I have no misfortunes to place on record, and my greatest 
fortune dates from the twenty-ninth day of June, 1885, when I 
married the noble woman who has dedicated her entire life to 
our home and children. 

Were I a young man again, trying to equip for the battle of 
life, I should certainly pursue the same course, as I know of no 
better institution of learning for a technical education that will 
give positive results than our dear old M. I. T. 

My only visit to the Institute since student days was in 1905, 
when I took my son Ygnacio there. He graduated with the class 
of 1908. I will try to visit the Institute again in June, 1909. 

Present weight, one hundred and sixty pounds; circumference, 
thirty-six inches. In 1884, weight one hundred and forty 
pounds; circumference, thirty-two inches. 



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BoTHFELD, Charles C. 

Consulting and Inspecting Engineer. 

12 18 Penobscot Building, Detroit, Michigan. 

After leaving the Institute was employed in the engineering 
department of the Edge Moor Iron Works at Wilmington, 
Delaware, about a year, and then entered the Keystone Bridge 
Works in Pittsburg, where I remained for two years; and it 
was in these two companies that I laid the foundation for my 
practical every-day work for future years. In those days these 
two plants were the best structural iron and steel schools for 
the young engineer in this country, and it was my desire to 
obtain a position in both of these for that reason. After I had 
obtained a sufficient amount of experience in the estimating and 
designing departments I accepted a position with the Pittsburg 
Testing Laboratory. I was then called to Toledo to act as 
bridge engineer for the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Rail- 
way Company and had charge of the construction of a large 
number of new bridges for this road. After that was with the 
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Railway Company. Having 
seen more or less of Detroit during my work with both of these 
roads, I was very much attracted to the city as a place for a 
permanent residence, and after obtaining promises of work from 
several of the railway companies in that territory I opened an 
office there. My work covers all parts of the country from 
Buffalo and Pittsburg westward, and I act as consulting and 
inspecting engineer for from thirty to forty railway companies. 
The largest structure I have looked after was over the St. Law- 
rence River at Montreal, which amounts to over twenty-three 
thousand tons of steel work. 

Outside my professional business, I am president of the 
Detroit Pneumatic Tool Company; secretary and director in 
the Maxwell Concrete Steel Company. Am also interested in 
the Hayes Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of auto- 
mobile parts. 

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Bridgman, Alfred F. 

Purchasing Agent, Metropolitan Water and Sewerage 

Board. 
Residence, Hyde Park, Massachusetts. 

Born December 25, 1857, in Springfield, Massachusetts. 
Married, May 15, 1889, to Carrie L. Kincaid, in Sloatsburg, 
New York. Children: Harold Kincaid, born February 19, 
1890; Elizabeth, July 15, 1891; Robert Kincaid, May 21, 1894; 
Joseph Clark, March 25, 1897; Alfred Fearing, June 28, 1900. 

Residences have been Somerville and Hyde Park, Massa- 
chusetts. 

Have been secretary of the Metropolitan Sewerage Club, 
Boston; secretary of Men's Club, Hyde Park; curator of Hyde 
Park Historical Society. 

Attended the Springfield, Massachusetts, High School, and 
studied one year in Berea College, Kentucky. 

From 1884 to 1886 was not in active work. From 1886 to 
1888 with Ernest W. Bowditch, C. E., at Tuxedo Park, New 
York, on surveys for water-works, sewers, roads, etc., and the 
purchase of supplies. In 1889 with Edw. A. Buss, mill engineer, 
Boston, and with the city engineer, Somerville; 1889 to 1895 with 
the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, Boston, as assistant 
engineer; 1895 to 1901, auditor for Metropolitan Water Board; 
1 90 1 to present time with the combined Water and Sewerage 
Board, first as auditor, now as purchasing agent. Although my 
work has been largely on the business side of engineering, the 
technical training atM. I. T. has been of great use; and when 
the Metropolitan Water Board was organized my selection as 
auditor was largely due to my engineering experience. 

In retrospect, the classes most thoroughly enjoyed were the 
English, with Professor Atkinson; the physical geography, with 
Professor Niles; and the geology, with Professor Crosby. 

The proudest hour of my student life was when I received 
the second prize at the annual drill, accompanied by words 
from President Rogers. 

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My impression is that, for the work required, a better prepa- 
ration would have made my course much more satisfactory. 

My present weight, one hundred and thirty-five pounds; cir- 
cumference, thirty-four inches; and the same in 1884. 

BuNCE, Walter H. 

General Manager of the Chipeta Tunnel Company. 
Ouray, Colorado. 

Born, October 22, 1862, in Hartford, Connecticut. Unmar- 
ried. 

Preparation for M. I. T. obtained at the Hartford High 
School. Since leaving Tech have followed the profession of 
mining engineer, and my residences have been many and widely 
scattered. Beginning with Arizona, my business located me in 
Colorado, California, Wyoming, Nicaragua, British Columbia, 
Washington, District of Columbia, and back in Colorado. My 
home address remains at the old home in Hartford, Connecticut, 
where I was born. 

My career has been one of ups and downs. I have seen more 
of the wilderness than I have any craving for again; I have seen 
at close range the development of our West, and I have no com- 
plaint to make. 

Looking back at the student days it seems to me that few of 
us appreciated that those were our happiest ones. I would cer- 
tainly "do it again" in the broadest sense, my business expe- 
rience having shown me the definite advantage of the technical 
education over the collegiate in entering upon life's work. 

Have not been in Boston since 1897, but shall certainly try to 
attend the anniversary. 

Present weight, about two hundred pounds; girth, about 
thirty-eight inches. In '84 they were, respectively, about one 
hundred and sixty and thirty-four. 

[Mr. Bunce writes from Buenos Ayres (March, 1909), that 
the city is nearly as beautiful as Paris, and that he is " quite in 
love with the wonderful richness of the Argentine."] 

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Bridgman 
Callahan 

BUNCE 



Burgess, Oliver G. 
Address unknown. 
Born in 1861. Entered the Institute in September, '81, and 
was a resident of Boston at the time; previously a student in the 
Boston Latin School. At some date after graduation from the 
Institute he took a course in medicine, becoming a physician, 
and locating on St. Botolph Street, Boston, later moving to Rox- 
bury. — From the Class Directory for igoo. 

Callahan, William K. 

Born January 8, 1864, in Dayton, Ohio. Died in Dayton, 
May 10, 1907. Married, in 1891, to Lida Ohmer, in Dayton. 
Mrs. Callahan died in 1898. They had one daughter, Char- 
lotte. 

Educated in the public schools of Dayton, and took the course 
in Mechanical Engineering at M. I. T. After leaving the Insti- 
tute entered his father's business in Dayton, beginning as an 
apprentice in the shop; in 1885, upon reaching his majority, 
he became a member of the firm (W. P. Callahan & Co.), but 
continued his apprenticeship until he learned his trade, when he 
entered the office of the company. After his father's death he 
had entire charge of the estate, and was a director in the City 
Bank, the Ohio Paper Company of Miamisburg; the organizer, 
and first and only president, of the Gem City Building and 
Loan Association; also a director of the Royal Remedy Com- 
pany, the P. M. Harmon Company, the Dayton Gaslight and 
Coke Company, the F. G. Kinney Company, New Orleans, 
Louisiana, the Charles C. Cooper Company; and manager of 
the large estate and guardian for his brother's children. 

Was a member of the masonic fraternity, including Knights 
Templar, Thirty-second Scottish Rite, and the Mystic Shrine; 
was also a charter member of the Elks Society. A member of 
the Dayton Club, the Bicycle Club, and the Vingt-et-un Club. 
He was an attendant of the Episcopal Church. 

Mr. Callahan had obtained a place of eminence among the 

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successful business men of his city, and was destined to achieve 
yet greater success had he lived. He was always a most cor- 
dial and congenial companion, of even temper, sympathetic and 
considerate, yet high and determined in purpose and unswerv- 
ing in fidelity. One of the best testimonials of his worth is the 
high regard in which he was held by the men in his employ. 

Carr, W. Frank. 

Chief Engineer the Falk Company, Steel Founders and 

Manufacturers. 
Ii6 32d Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, January i, 1861. Married 
twice, present family consisting of wife, Elizabeth Gardner, and 
three sons, — Walter, sixteen years of age; Alan Robert, 
fourteen; and Burton Kenneth, twelve. 

My home in boyhood was in Clinton, Massachusetts. After 
graduating from Clinton High School entered the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College at Amherst, graduating in '81. Entered 
Technology in the fall of '81, but was prevented by an acci- 
dent from doing school work, and dropped back into the '84 
Class, much to my profit. My first summer vacation was spent 
in an architect's office at Clinton, and as engineer and in- 
spector in the building of the separate system (Waring) of 
sewers for the city of Keene, New Hampshire. The second 
summer was spent largely on the Keene sewerage system. 

On graduating I became assistant bridge engineer on the 
Boston & Lowell Railroad, and later in the year, professor 
in engineering department of University of Minnesota. Formed 
a partnership in 1885 with A. W. Spalding in general engineer- 
ing work, making a specialty of landscape architecture and 
park engineering. Afterward entered the street railway field, 
and was one of the early electric railway engineers, being at first 
draftsman for the Minneapolis Street Railway Company, and 
later assistant engineer, finally becoming chief engineer of the 
road. My health failed, and I was obliged to go South, and 

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Carr 

Chandler 

Carven 



there was appointed general manager and chief engineer of 
the Roanoke Street Railway and Electric Light Company, 
Roanoke, Virginia. Left Roanoke in March, 1905, to take the 
position of superintendent of electric construction West Chicago 
Street Railway Company in 1895; in 1896 was made chief engi- 
neer and general roadmaster of this road and several others. In 
1899 became associated with the Falk Company of Milwaukee 
as chief engineer, with an interest in the concern, which com- 
pany now occupies front rank as steel founders. For the past 
few years my time has been devoted entirely to railway con- 
struction and track-work manufacture. Generally speaking, 
my business and professional career has been fairly successful; 
my haps have been a few and mishaps a plenty. 

Am a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; 
of the University Club of Milwaukee, the St. James Club, St. 
James Church, Milwaukee, and the Ark Lodge and Chapter of 
Masons, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

"Would I do it again .?" Yes, with a few changes. I believe 
in a college or academic course preceding the M. L T. course, 
and would not enter Tech before eighteen years of age. One 
of the changes I would make is the acquiring of more business 
training. A course in "business" would make a profitable 
addition to the curriculum. One study / have had no prac- 
tical use for is calculus, though I would not do away with it. 
Likewise, the languages have come into play but little. 

I look back with pride and love on old M. L T. and shall 
forever "root" for her welfare. Shall try to be at the reunion. 

Carven, Christopher J. 

City Engineer's Office, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Residence, 24 Centre Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts. 

Born November 15, 1863, in Boston, Massachusetts. Mar- 
ried, September 14, 1897, in Boston, to Rose A. Bernier. Chil- 
dren: C. Coleman, born March 4, 1899; R. Claire, born Octo- 
ber 25, 1900. 

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While at the Institute lived at 125 Broadway, South Boston; 
in '85 moved to 1604 Dorchester Avenue; lived there until mar- 
ried, and since marriage at 34 Centre Street, Dorchester. 

Have never held any offices, and am not a member of any 
societies, clubs, etc. 

Preparation for M. I. T. in the Boston public schools; grad- 
uated from the Lawrence Grammar School in 1877 ^^^ ^^^ 
English High School in 1880. 

After graduation from Institute entered the City Engineer's 
Office, and have remained there to present time. 

Think I would "do it again;" although, looking backward 
now, do not think much of the studies that Professor Vose put 
us through. 

Have not visited the Institute since 1884, but will try to be 
present at the twenty-fifth anniversary, in June, 1909. 

Present weight about one hundred and fifty pounds; circum- 
ference, thirty-six inches. In 1884, weighed one hundred and 
twenty pounds; circumference, about thirty inches. 

Chandler, Barrett L. 

Treasurer Beckwith-Chandler Company, Newark, New 

Jersey. 
Residence, Morristown, New Jersey. 

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, July 16, 1861; but disclaim 
being a Southerner, as both my parents and grandparents were 
born New Englanders and I was brought to Boston when one 
year old. Having never married, I am still an old and forlorn 
bachelor''', but have not even yet given up all hope. 

Spent my youth in Roxbury; graduated from the Roxbury 
High School in 1880, and in the fall entered Technology, where 
I took a special course in chemistry for three years. 

In 1883 left the Institute to enter the employ of Valentine & 
Company, varnish manufacturers. New York, as assistant 
chemist; left them in 1892, and joined with Mr. Charles B. 

*See portrait. — Ed. 

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Beckwith, forming the corporation of Beckwith-Chandler Com- 
pany, varnish manufacturers, building our factory in Newark, 
where we are still doing, I am glad to say, a most successful 
business. 

I am a member of the Calumet Club, the Technology Club, 
and the New England Society, all of New York; the Morris- 
town Club and the Morris County Golf Club, of Morristown, 
New Jersey; also the American Society for Testing Materials 
and the National Geographic Society. 

I am a firm believer in scientific schools in general and the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in particular, and 
would certainly "do it again," as I largely attribute what suc- 
cess I have achieved as a manufacturer to the technical educa- 
tion obtained at the Institute. 

My present weight is one hundred and fifty pounds; in 1884 
it was one hundred and twenty-five pounds — a gain of a pound 
a year. 

Chase, Roscoe L. 

Manager, Arnold Print Works. 
North Adams, Massachusetts. 

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, October 25, i860. Married 
NeUie V. Colton in 1888. One daughter. 

Member of a number of local clubs, such as the Berkshire 
Club, the Country Club, etc., the Chemists' Club of New York, 
Society of Chemical Industry of England, and Societe indus- 
trielle de Mulhouse. 

Educated in the public schools of Lowell, graduating from the 
high school in 1878. For two years worked at various occupa- 
tions, and finally took up the machine business, with the inten- 
tion of entering the School of Mechanic Arts in 1880; but at 
time of taking examinations decided to become a candidate of 
the Institute of Technology instead. Entered the Institute with 
the intention of taking the Mechanical Engineering course; but 
events so shaped themselves that I changed to the Chemistry 

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course, and in the remaining years succeeded in making some 
combinations as well as breaking some — and especially so in 
the glass line. 

On graduating became connected with the Albany Dye and 
Chemical Works, and for six or seven months learned the mys- 
teries of the manufacture of dyestufFs — enough so that on the 
failure of the firm I decided not to remain with the reorganiza- 
tion of the company, but strike out for new fields. The next 
six years were spent in Philadelphia, learning the practical 
application of dyestuffs in the textile lines; and part of the time 
was given to teaching in the Philadelphia Textile School, where 
I organized the Department of Chemistry and Textile Coloring. 
In 1890 became connected with the Arnold Print Works, where 
I worked in various capacities until appointed general manager. 
During this time I saw and took part in a complete revolution 
in the line of work turned out, the works growing from an ordi- 
nary ten-machine plant to one of twenty-four, and from turning 
out ordinary prints to a class of goods ranking with the best in 
Europe. 

In the course of my duties went abroad several times and 
visited the best works in England, Germany, and France. 

Regarding the use made and benefit derived from the Insti- 
tute teachings, I have found a good use for practically all I 
learned there; the German and French have been of incalcu- 
lable value. I would certainly do it again. 

Have made it a point to visit the Institute nearly every year 
since graduation, and rejoice in its growth. Having attended 
the twentieth anniversary, it will certainly take a big obstacle 
to keep me away from the twenty-fifth. 

CoBURN, Daniel L. 

Examiner, Department of Drugs, Medicines, and Chemi- 
cals at the Port of Boston and Charlestown; office, 
177 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Residence, 949 Main Street, Woburn, Massachusetts. 

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Chase 

CODMAN 
COBURN 



Born in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, October 4, i860. Mar- 
ried Maude Louise Wilkins, of Middleton, Massachusetts, 
September, 1887, at Lowell. Five children: Ruth Winifred, 
born August 9, 1888; Leslie Otis, July 23, 1889; Dorothy May, 
January 8, 1892; Jesse Theodore, October 23, 1893; Donald 
Adelbert, May 25, 1901. All living except Leslie Otis, who died 
in infancy. 

Resided in Tyngsboro until shortly after marriage, then 
moved to Maiden; remained there about two years, and moved 
to Woburn in 1890. 

Served as a member and secretary of the School Committee 
of Tyngsboro for three years; treasurer of the Public Library 
one year. Clerk of the North Congregational Society, Woburn, 
from 1900 to 1908. For nearly four years was a member of the 
Board of United States Civil Service Examiners for the Port of 
Boston and Charlestown. A member of the American Chemical 
Society and of Hiawatha Colony 171, United Order of Pilgrim 
Fathers. 

Was prepared for M. L T. in the schools of my native town 
and the Scientific Department of Phillips Andover Academy, 
graduating from that school June, 1880; entered the Institute 
September, 1881. I look back over my "student years" as the 
most pleasant of my life, and those I should care most to live 
over again if it were possible. I found the school life at M. L T. 
in strong contrast with that of the Academy, which was more 
like that of the colleges. I think this is the one thing that a stu- 
dent from a private or boarding school misses most on entering 
the Institute, and I believe it would be of great benefit to the 
students and the school if it were so located and conducted that 
the student life more nearly resembled that of the colleges. 

After leaving the Institute was private assistant for a short 
time to the late Dr. L. M. Norton. During the summer of 1885 
was inspector of milk in a creamery in Windham, New Hamp- 
shire; later in the same year was employed in the dye-house of 
the Lawrence Manufacturing Company, Lowell, Massachu- 

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setts. In January, 1886, accepted the position of assistant in 
the first-year laboratory at M. I. T.; in October, 1886, after 
passing a civil-service examination, was appointed drug sampler 
and assistant to the Special Examiner of Drugs, Medicines, and 
Chemicals at the Port of Boston and Charlestown; in October, 
1895, was promoted to my present position. 

I have found the education obtained at the Institute very 
useful to me in my work as a chemist. I do not consider the 
course in Industrial Chemistry of our time very complete, but 
am pleased to see that it has since been developed and given 
the attention it deserves. 

"Would you 'do it again' .?" Yes, but "do it" better. 

I would prefer the M. I. T. course with college environments; 
i.e., a combination of both. 

I usually visit the Institute once or twice each year, and always 
receive a hearty welcome from my old associates there. 

My present weight is about one hundred and fifty-five pounds; 
waist measure, thirty-four inches; which is about the same as in 
1884. 

CoDMAN, Henry Sargent. 

Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, June 19, 1864. Died Jan- 
uary 13, 1893. He prepared for the Institute in Mr. G. W. C. 
Noble's School. 

Almost immediately after graduating from the Institute he 
entered the office of Frederick Law Olmsted. In the summer of 
1887 he traveled with his uncle. Professor C. S. Sargent, through 
England, France, Germany, and Italy, to study living collec- 
tions of plants, nurseries, parks, and gardens. After that he 
went to Paris to pursue his professional studies for more than a 
year. When he returned to America he was taken into partner- 
ship with Mr. Olmsted. In 1892 he was in Chicago, practically 
the executive head of the Landscape Department of the Co- 
lumbian Exposition. It was while here that he died, January 13, 

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WW 





Dearborn 

DOANE 

DU Pont 



i893> after an operation for appendicitis. No man of his age 
had ever accomplished more in his profession, or given brighter 
promise of what could confidently be expected from his ma- 
tured powers. He inherited a profound love for natural beauty, 
and his taste had been disciplined and refined by close observa- 
tion and wide reading. He was modest almost to diffidence, but 
never shrank from assuming responsibility; and he invariably 
gained the confidence and esteem of all with whom he came in 
contact professionally. He had the highest intellectual appre- 
ciation of the possibilities of his profession; and in view of what 
he was, and of the relations he had established with so many 
of the foremost architects of the country, his early death must 
be lamented as a serious loss to rural art in America. 



CoNRO, Emma O. 

Principal St. Catharine's Hall. 
Brooklyn, New York. 

Born in Bartonville, New York, June 29, 1854. Educated 
in private schools in Keeseville, New York; was graduated 
in 1873 from the Keeseville High School. From 1873 to 
1876, preceptress of the Keeseville High School; 1877, in- 
structor in science at St. Mary's Hall, Faribault, Minnesota; 
1 878-1 880, in charge of Preparatory Department, St. Cath- 
arine's Hall, Brooklyn; 1881, student in chemistry at Har- 
vard Summer School; 1881-1883, special student, M. I. T.; 
1884, in Europe; 1 885-1 886, instructor in science at Howard 
Collegiate Institute, West Bridgewater, Massachusetts; 1886- 
1889, principal Howard Collegiate Institute; 1889, principal 
St. Hilda's Hall, Glendale, California; 1 890-1 898, organizer 
and director of the Department of Domestic Science, Pratt 
Institute, Brooklyn; 1 896-1 897, in Europe (student of Euro- 
pean schools); since 1898, principal of St. Catharine's Hall, 
Brooklyn. 



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Damon, Ralph H. 

In Insurance Business. 

Care J. I. D. Bristol, i Madison Avenue, New York City. 

Born in 1861. Before entering the Institute was a student at 
the Worcester Free Institute and a member of the Apprentice 
Class. At the time of entering the Institute, home was in West- 
vale, Massachusetts. Was married in June, 1884, and entered 
the employ of the Damon Manufacturing Company, at West- 
vale. A few years later, became superintendent for this com- 
pany and was also appointed postmaster of Westvale. About 
1899 went to New York, where he became connected with the 
Northwestern Life Insurance Company. — From Class Di- 
rectories. 

Visited the Institute in June, 1907. 

Dearborn, Samuel S. 
Mechanical Engineer. 
411 Marlborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Born in 1863. A graduate of the Dorchester High School 
before entering the Institute, and at that time resided in Harri- 
son Square. From 1884 to 1888 was with the Nonantum Com- 
pany, Newton, Massachusetts; from 1888 to 1891, with the 
Arlington Mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts; from 1891 to 1896, 
with the Beach Manufacturing Company, of Beacon Falls, 
Connecticut; from 1896 to 1898, with the Pope Tube Company, 
Hartford, Connecticut, and from 1898 to 1902, again with the 
Nonantum Company at Newton. Since 1902 I have been in- 
terested in the development of several textile devices. 

DoANE, Alfred O. 

Division Engineer, Metropolitan Water and Sewerage 

Board. 
Residence, Newtonville, Massachusetts. 

Born in Orleans, Massachusetts, May 2, 1862. Married 
Caroline D. Knowles, November 19, 1888. One son, Henry 
Knowles, born June 30, 1892. 

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After graduating from Technology I went on a trip to South 
America, coming home by way of the Pacific Coast, traveling 
quite extensively in the United States and Canada. For the re- 
mainder of 1884 was private assistant to Professor Niles, of the 
Geological Department. From 1 884 to 1886 engaged in chemical 
work, manufacturing photographic supplies, and working on 
problems connected with wood-pulp manufacture. Then 
joined the engineering staff of the city of Newton, remaining 
until 1896, when I entered the employ of the Metropolitan 
Water Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which 
later became the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board. 

Du Pont, T. Coleman. 
Wilmington, Delaware. 

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, December 11, 1863. Married 
Alice du Pont, January 17, 1889, in Wilmington, Delaware. 
Children: Ellen Coleman, born December 23, 1889; Alice 
Hounsfield, December 15, 1891; Francis Victor, May 28, 1893; 
Renee de Pelleport, May 25, 1897; Eleuthere Irenee, June 19, 
1902. 

Have resided in Louisville and Central City, Kentucky; 
Johnstown, Pennsylvania; and Wilmington, Delaware. 

Political offices held: chairman Republican State Committee 
(Delaware); member Republican National Committee; member 
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American 
Academy of Political and Social Science; the Engineers' Asso- 
ciation of the South; Engineers' and Architects' Club; American 
Society of Mining Engineers; Metropolitan Club, New York; 
New York Yacht Club; Lawyers' Club; the Southern Club, 
Philadelphia; Metropolitan Club, Washington; Manhattan 
Club, New York; the Wilmington Club; Wilmington Country 
Club. 

Preparation for M. L T., Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio; 
Chauncy Hall School, Boston, Massachusetts. 

It is with pleasure that I recall the happy days spent at 
Technology. To-day among my most intimate friends and 

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business associates I count a number of my schoolmates there, 
and I am glad to say most of them have "made good." We 
have several Tech men with the Powder Company here, and we 
always feel we can count on their work being first class. The 
knowledge gained while at the Institute has helped me in 
many undertakings, and as the years have gone by I realize 
more fully than ever what a good foundation it is for after life. 
If I had it to do again I would try harder in athletics. 

Business career since leaving Tech has included coal- 
mining, mining engineering, construction and operation of 
street railways, steel business, explosives business, banking 
institutions. Am now connected with the following : E. I. du 
Pont de Nemours Powder Company, Wilmington, Delaware; 
Johnstown Passenger Railway Company, Johnstown, Pennsyl- 
vania; Wilmington Trust Company, Wilmington, Delaware; 
Central Coal and Iron Company, Central City, Kentucky; Mc- 
Henry Coal Company, Central City; and Huntsville Railway, 
Light, and Power Company, Huntsville, Alabama. 

Have used the education at the Institute in almost all my 
work, and have branched out into different lines of work " be- 
cause I needed the money." Would "do it again" if I got a 
chance, and would not prefer a college course. 

Have visited the Institute about five times since '84, the last 
time in December, 1908, and intend to be there again in June, 
1909. ^ 

Weight now, two hundred and ten pounds; circumference, 
thirty-six inches. In 1884, two hundred and five pounds; cir- 
cumference, thirty-three inches. 

Emery, Herbert Clarke. 

Born in Indiana, July 30, i860. Died at his home in Brook- 
line, April 13, 1909. Was twice married: first to Miss Martin- 
dale, of Indianapolis, who died two years after marriage. In 1898 
married Winifred Louise White, of Richmond, in Managua, 
Nicaragua, who survives him. 

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Fitch 
Emery 

FONG 



Prepared for the Institute at Wabash College, but his depar- 
ture for South America prevented his graduation from the In- 
stitute, although he always retained a personal loyalty for the 
institution. 

He was eldest son of the late George D. Emery, and was for 
many years a partner and later first vice-president of the 
George D. Emery Company. Mr. Emery and his father were 
widely known as the first to develop the mahogany business in 
South and Central America through the methods pursued by 
lumbermen in this country. The "Emery claim," now in the 
hands of the State Department at Washington, concerns large 
concessions in Nicaragua granted entirely through the personal 
efforts of Mr. Emery some eleven years ago. Having lived in 
Latin-America much of the time since his twentieth year, and 
having an unusually sympathetic comprehension of the Spanish- 
American temperament, Mr. Emery was successful in adapting 
himself to the peculiar conditions which govern commercial 
transactions in those countries, and was long a conspicuous 
figure in Nicaragua. 

He was for years a member of the Boston Athletic Associa- 
tion, of the Corinthian Yacht Club, of the Ancient and Honor- 
able Artillery, and Joseph Warren Lodge; as well as of many 
foreign clubs, including the American Society of London. 
While at college he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta 
fraternity. 

Fitch, Alfred L. 

Assistant Superintendent, Union Wire Mattress Company. 
Residence, 1132 East Forty-fifth Street, Chicago, Illinois. 

Born in Fowler, Illinois, June 30, 1862. Married, in 1889, to 
Mary E. Foy, in North Easton, Massachusetts. 

I never was a "joiner," but am now an associate of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a member of the 
Chicago Camera Club (of which I have been a director), and of 
the Art Institute. Was color sergeant at M. I. T.; have been 

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a member of the Royal League, also a Sunday-school secretary 
and treasurer. 

The public schools of Chicago furnished my preparation for 
M. I. T. 

The four years at the Institute were considerable of a grind 
(possibly because of the feeling that money was not abundant 
and that the best use must be made of the time), but I now feel 
that more social life would have been better in many ways. 

I would "do it again,'* and never felt any desire for a college 
course instead. 

After graduation my first work was steam-fitting; and 
among others, I have been instructor in mechanical engineer- 
ing laboratory at M. I. T.; draftsman in general machine-shop; 
secretary and treasurer of ornamental metal works; in engi- 
neering work of various kinds, testing, experimental, design- 
ing, etc. 

Part of the education obtained at M. I. T. has been useful in 
these various occupations, but other parts have been forgotten 
from a lack of use. 

Was at M. I. T. in 1885, 1886, 1887, 1889, 1901, 1904, and 
hope to be there in June, 1909. 

In 1884 weighed one hundred and sixty-five pounds; waist 
measure, thirty-two inches. In 1908, weight, two hundred 
pounds; waist measure, forty-one inches. 

FoNG, Pah Liang. 

Deputy, Bureau of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce. 
Mukden, Manchuria. 

Born in Canton, China, March 16, i860. Married to Miss 
Wong in 1883, to Miss Loo in 1891, and to present wife, Miss 
Soon, in 1904, in Canton. Have ten children, five of whom are 
living: daughters born in 1891 and 1893; sons, in 1905, 1906, 
and 1908. 

Have resided in Soochow, Hongkong, Hainan, Canton, 
Tientsin, and Tongshan; and at present, since 1908, in Mukden. 

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While residing in Canton was interested in missionary work, 
being a member of Rev. C. A. Nelson^s mission, and belonged 
to a committee of the same. 

Preparation for the Institute was received at the Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts. After leaving the 
Institute the first four years were devoted to telegraph service 
in China; taught in the Two Kwangs' Province Government 
Telegraph School, Canton, from 1886 to 1904; went to Tientsin 
in May, 1905, and entered the North China Railway service; 
thence was appointed as proctor at the Railway and Mining 
Engineering College, Tongshan; came to Mukden in October, 
1908. 

The education received at the Institute proved a training of 
the mental powers, — memory, judgment, the reason, and will, — 
so that one can turn to any one of many lines of work and in a 
short time dovetail one's self into the position one has chosen. 
Should have desired a more liberal education, and regret that I 
did not even complete my course of studies at the Institute. 

In 1 88 1 weight one hundred and eight pounds; now one hun- 
dred and twenty pounds, and a little thicker. 

French, George L. R. 

Superintendent of Terminal Division Boston & Maine 

Railroad. 
Residence, Winchester, Massachusetts. 

Born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, May 18, 1863. Married 
Fannie Louise Smith, of Northampton, Massachusetts, Jan- 
uary 14, 1892. 

Educated in Boston public schools up to the time of enter- 
ing the Institute. Immediately after graduation entered the 
employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 
remaining for four years — first in the engineering depart- 
ment, upon the location and construction of new lines, then in 
the operating department. In 1889 returned to New Eng- 
land and entered the service of the Boston & Maine Rail- 

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road, filling the following positions: 1889 to 1890, assistant 
engineer, Passumpsic Division and St. Johnsbury & Lake 
Champlain Railroad; 1890 to 1895, roadmaster of Southern 
Division; 1895 to 1903, engineer and roadmaster of Eastern 
Division; 1903 to 1907, assistant superintendent of the Con- 
necticut & Passumpsic Division, in charge of the operation 
and maintenance of the line from Springfield, Massachusetts, 
to White River Junction, Vermont; 1907 to date, superinten- 
dent of the Terminal Division at Boston. 

Gill, Augustus Herman. 

Professor of Technical Analysis, M. I. T. 
Residence, Canton Corner, Massachusetts. 

Son of Augustus and Hannah Porter (Drake) Gill. Was 
born at Canton, Massachusetts, on August i, 1864. Prepared 
for the Institute at the local high school. Was for two years 
lecture assistant to Professor Nichols and assistant in sanitary 
chemistry, and one year instructor in general chemistry. The 
following year was water analyst for the Massachusetts State 
Board of Health in their newly established laboratory for the 
investigation of water-supplies and sewage. Went to Europe 
with Noyes, '86, and Mulliken, '87, for two years' study at the 
University of Leipsic, receiving the degree of Ph.D. there in 
1890. On return from abroad was appointed instructor in gas 
analysis at the Institute, and served also as assistant in sanitary 
chemistry; was at times assistant chemist with the State Board 
of Health. During the year 1 893-1 894 was lecturer in analytical 
chemistry at Wellesley College. 

In 1894 was made assistant professor and organized the 
Laboratory of Gas and Oil Analysis, one of the first in the coun- 
try. From 1895 until 1901 was largely responsible for the course 
in Chemical Engineering. In 1906 was made associate pro- 
fessor and in 1909 professor of technical analysis. This deals 
with the subjects of asphalt, celluloid, boiler waters, inks, 
fixed and volatile oils, paints, soaps, explosives, rubber, and 

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tanning materials. Since 1901 have been charged "with the 
purchase of supplies and care of the (chemical) department 
property/' For the past ten years have conducted a laboratory 
for the analysis and investigation of oils, gases, and allied sub- 
jects, and served as an expert in legal cases and patent 
causes. 

Have written numerous articles upon the analysis of oils, 
gases, and water; three books and many book reviews. Among 
the more important articles are "On the Determination of 
Nitrates in Potable Waters,'* "The Determination of Methane 
and Hydrogen by Explosion,'' "The Detection of Mineral Oil 
in Distilled Grease Oleines," "The Determination of Rosin in 
Varnishes," "The Probable Efficiency of Accidental Gas Ex- 
plosions." The books are entitled "Gas and Fuel Analysis for 
Engineers" (five editions), "A Short Handbook of Oil Analysis" 
(five editions), " Engine-room Chemistry" (two editions). Have 
edited the "Register of Publications of the Institute" 1862- 
1893, "First Supplement" 1893-1898, and "Canton High 
School Register." 

Married, September 2, 1897, at West Mansfield, Mabel F., 
daughter of Hayden E. and Florence (Balcom) Shepard. Have 
two children: Helen, born November 16, 1901, and Paul Her- 
man, born June 10, 1908. Summer home, Randolph, New 
Hampshire. 

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science; member of the German and American Chemical 
Societies, of the Society of Chemical Industry, Society of Arts, 
M. I. T., and Society for Testing Materials. 

Member of Blue Hill Lodge F. and A. M. and Cyprus Com- 
mandery K. T.; of the Wampatuck Country Club, Appalachian 
Mountain Club, and Technology Club (treasurer since 1905). 
Have been clerk of the First Congregational Parish in Canton 
(Unitarian) since 1896. Secretary of the M. I. T. Alumni 
Association (three years), also of Class of '84 M. I. T. (seven 
years); president of the Canton High School Association (four 

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years) and of the Northeastern Section of the American 
Chemical Society. 

Had time and money permitted, would have liked a college 
course previous to coming to the Institute, mainly for the 
friendships which could have been formed; would prefer the 
latter course to one at college, and "would do it again." 

Goodrich, Robert R. 

Professor of Metallurgy, University of Arizona. 
Tucson, Arizona. 

Born in 1864. Before becoming a student at the Institute 
had studied in Dr. Pingney's School in Elizabeth, New Jersey. 
Entered the Institute in the fall of 1880, but left in May, 1881; 
returned and graduated with the degree of S.B. in 1885. After 
graduation became a mining engineer in the New River Coal- 
fields on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, where I remained 
for five years; from 1889 to 1892 was mining engineer and col- 
liery manager in the Pocahontas Coal-fields; from 1892 to 1894 
was in the real-estate business in El Paso, Texas; then became 
connected with the Chihuahua Mining Company, of Chihuahua, 
Mexico, as chemist, and from 1897 to 1898 was superintendent of 
their mines at Cusihuiriachic; then returned to the Institute 
to take a year's course in Mechanical Engineering, with the 
intention of turning the theoretical studies to account imme- 
diately after graduating by taking up new applications of 
machinery to mining operations. Again graduated from the 
Institute in 1902, with the degree of Master of Science. 

From 1902 to 1904, electrical engineer apprentice with West- 
inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pitts- 
burg, Pennsylvania; from 1904 to 1906, mechanical draftsman 
Boston & Montana Smelter, Great Falls, Montana; in 1906- 
1907, mining in California. Since September, 1907, professor 
of metallurgy in the University of Arizona. 



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Haines, Frank M. 

Born in March, 1863, in Pennsylvania. Died at Fort Worth, 
Texas, June i, 1905. 

Graduated from M. I. T. in 1884, and immediately entered 
the service of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, where 
he remained until 1892; and during that period he was chief of 
construction work in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. From 
1892 to 1894 was general manager of the Central Coal and Iron 
Company of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1894 he went to the 
Johnson Construction Company as its chief engineer of con- 
struction of a new steel plant at Lorain, Ohio, and remained 
with this company until 1899, when he became connected with 
the Bishop, Sherwin Syndicate. In 1900 was the general man- 
ager and treasurer of the Fort Worth Street Railway Company, 
and in 1901 vice-president and general manager of the North- 
ern Texas Traction Company, at Fort Worth. 

W^as at one time in Central America; spent several months in 
Brazil and Venezuela. Was chief engineer of the present elec- 
tric street railway system of Rio Janeiro; also built the street- 
car system of Caracas. 

Hammett, H. G. 

Railway-Supply Manufacturing. 
Troy, New York. 

Born in Auburn, Maine, in i860. Married in Troy, New 
York, in 1887, and have one daughter. 

Am a member of the Engineers' Club, New York City; 
Pafraets Dael Club, Troy; Mohawk Club, Schenectady; New 
York Railroad Club; American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers; president Society of Engineers of Eastern New York; 
director Chamber of Commerce, Troy; director Union National 
Bank of Troy; treasurer A. M. Chapel Machine Company, 
Pittsfield, Massachusetts; vice-president and treasurer M. C. 
Palmer Contracting Company, Havana, Cuba. 

Prepared for the Institute in the high school of Somerville, 

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Massachusetts. At the termination of my course at the Insti- 
tute, first engaged as draftsman with the Consolidated Safety 
Valve Company, then located in Boston; then became assistant 
electrician of the Boston & Albany Railroad, and subsequently 
reentered the employ of the Consolidated Safety Valve Com- 
pany, representing them in Chicago; later became superin- 
tendent of the railway-supply business of F. W. Richardson, 
Troy, New York; and subsequent to the death of Mr. Richard- 
son, in 1886, became, and still remain, sole owner of a suc- 
cessful railway-supply manufacturing business. 

I am heartily in accord with the Mechanical Engineering 
course at the Institute, and believe same of great benefit to 
students. 

My present weight is one hundred and thirty-five pounds; 
circumference, forty inches. 

Heywood, George Henry. 

Born in Gardner, Massachusetts, July 28, 1862. Married 
Harriet G. Edgell, October 27, 1886. Three children: Seth, 
John, and George Henry. 

Died May 17, 1898. 

His boyhood and youth were spent in Gardner, where he 
received his early education, graduating from the Gardner High 
School in 1880, and entering the Institute in the fall of that year. 
During his school and college vacations he employed himself 
in studying the factories of the firm of Heywood Brothers & 
Company, learning the details of the business, into which, by 
reason of his father's and family's large interest, he wished to 
become qualified to enter. On graduation from the Institute 
he entered the home office of the company, and, owing to his 
previous practice as a workman in the various departments, 
had no small understanding of the work before him. In 1885 
a branch store was opened in Boston, of which he was placed 
in charge; two years later he returned to Gardner, still retaining 
the general directorship of the Boston store, however. In 1888 

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Hammett 
Heywood 
Holder 



he was sent to Chicago, to start there the Heywood & Morrill 
Rattan Company. In 1890 he returned to Gardner again. 
More and more of the responsibiHties of the large and increasing 
business fell upon him. In 1897, by consolidation, the firm 
became the Heywood Brothers & Wakefield Company, of 
which he was made treasurer and a director. 

He was prominent in town affairs, being chairman of the 
School Board at the time of his death. He was a member of 
the First Parish, and a liberal benefactor of the Congregational 
Church; a member of Hope Lodge, A. F. and A. M.; North 
Star Chapter, R. A. M.; Ivanhoe Commandery, K. T.; and a 
member of the Massachusetts Consistory. He was president 
of the Gardner Boat Club and a director of the Levi Heywood 
Memorial Library Association. 

HillYer, Edgar C. 

President of the Raleigh Ice and Electric Company. 
Raleigh, North Carolina. 

Born in Auburn, California, March 2, 1857. Married in 
1895. Moved to Washington, District of Columbia, in 1867; 
was at school in Millersville, Pennsylvania, in 1868; at school 
in Paris, France, from 1869 to 1874. Resided in Washington, 
District of Columbia, from 1875 to 1876. With the Patapsco 
Bridge and Iron Works, Baltimore, Maryland, as draftsman, 
from 1877 to 1879. With the Union Iron Works at San Fran- 
cisco, California, as draftsman and mechanical engineer, from 
1880 to 1 88 1. Entered the Institute in 1882, in the Class of '84, 
with advanced standing. Again with the Patapsco Bridge 
Works, Baltimore, as superintendent, from 1884 to 1887. In 
1888 engaged in a general machine-shop business at Newport 
News, Virginia, making a specialty of electric power plants and 
the manufacture of ice-making machinery. In 1903 moved to 
Raleigh, North Carolina, and engaged in the electric light and 
ice business. 

Have been generally successful in my professional and busi- 

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ness enterprises; and having chosen Raleigh as a permanent 
residence, will be glad to welcome any of the Class there. 

Holder, James G. 

Druggist, 119 Broad Street, Lynn, Massachusetts. 

Have always resided in Lynn. Was a vice-president of the 
Lynn Board of Trade for several terms, and member of the 
Oxford Club, our foremost social organization, for many years; 
was also class secretary of '84 for quite a long period. Having 
become deeply interested in the speaking of French and Ger- 
man, at various times I joined societies devoted to the practice 
and study of those languages, serving as vice-president of the 
Schiller Verein, and was elected treasurer of the Lynn branch 
of L'Alliance Fran^aise de TAmerique. 

Prepared for the M. L T. at the Lynn High School, receiving 
a medal on graduation for high rank in scholarship. It is a 
great pleasure to recall those years at our schoolhouse " on the 
hill," for they seem a fitting preliminary to the Institute; and, 
indeed, the school was a kind of "younger sister," for the true 
scientific spirit was maintained by a corps of able teachers. 
Then came the great day when announcement was received 
that our names were enrolled as students of the Institute. How 
familiar to the memory are the mephitic odors of the Chemical 
Laboratory! What white fumes were produced by the rival 
efforts of the embryo manufacturers of H CI and NH4OH, and 
how the glassware of some of our classmates tried to emulate 
the comets when they attempted the manufacture of hydrogen 
gas ! We all recall the cold drills in the gymnasium, with nothing 
but thin cotton gloves to protect our chilled fingers from the 
frosty metal of our muskets, and the smart appearance of our 
new uniforms. 

During annual vacations I have visited various sections of 
this country and Europe; and although I have visited about all 
portions of the United States, on one occasion only did I see a 
classmate, C. S. Robinson, at Pueblo, Colorado, in 1904, with 

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whom I had a very pleasant interview. When in Europe I had 
a like pleasure in calling on A. H. Gill, at Leipsic, where he 
was studying chemistry. 

Visited the Institute annually after graduation for many 
years, but later was unable to do so. I did, however, make a 
call last year, and had the pleasure of an interview with Gill 
and Tyler; was at the alumni reception in June, and made a 
delightful renewal of former friendships. 

Hooker, Henry D. 
Architect. 
17 Gramercy Park, New York City. 

Born in Providence, R. I., April 14, 1859. Married Mary T. 
Davenport, of Brooklyn, New York, January 7, 1886. Chil- 
dren: Davenport, born May 13, 1887; Henry D., Jr., January 
25, 1892. The elder boy is a graduate of Yale, 1908, and is 
taking a postgraduate course in biology at the same university. 
The younger boy is a Freshman at Yale, class of 1912, and 
expects to take postgraduate work in forestry at the same 
university. 

Have made my home in New York ever since I left Boston. 
Was at one time a member of the Society of Chemical Industry; 
am now a member of the Tech Club of New York. 

My preparatory education was secured in Media, Pennsyl- 
vania, and night schools of New York, while working in archi- 
tects' ojffices. Also had a year's work in the Civil Engineer's 
office at the League Island Navy Yard, and studied naval con- 
struction and seamanship on the U. S. Receiving Ship Si. 
Louts; also at League Island Navy Yard, where my father. 
Commander Edward Hooker, U. S. N., was in command, which 
work really was incidental to my future work. 

In business I have always been an architect and architectural 
engineer; have always handled the practical construction work, 
therefore have largely erected work of other architects; yet have 
executed, among other buildings, from my own plans, the 

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Brooklyn Maternity Hospital, and many stores, apartment 
and private houses about New York. Built the Fort Hill 
Refuse Station in Boston. Largely developed the garbage- 
destructor furnace from crude form to its present shape. I have 
worked in concrete, plain and reinforced, fire-proof work, bridge 
work, steel construction, etc. 

After twenty-five years I look back with pleasure to Tech 
as my only Alma Mater. At that time as librarian in the Archi- 
tectural Department and secretary to Professor William R. 
Ware, and later as an assistant in the department after Pro- 
fessor Ware left, I was isolated from my class fellowship, and 
much better known to the students of the Architectural Depart- 
ment than to my own class. My only regrets have been that I 
could not have completed the course with my class. 

All through my life since leaving Tech I have used, and am 
still using, what I learned there — it is a part of and inseparable 
from my work. I would certainly "do it again" if I were to 
start over again; but all through my career I have felt the need 
of the training a college course would have given, and in the 
case of my boys I am very glad that they have the advantage of 
college work before taking their professional course. 

Have been in Boston only four or five times in the past 
twenty-five years; then usually in the summer, when Tech was 
closed. I have, however, been able to visit there twice, the last 
time in 1900, and hope to be there in 1909. 

Weight in 1883, one hundred and thirty pounds; circumfer- 
ence, thirty inches; hair, light brown. Weight in 1909, one 
hundred and thirty-six pounds; circumference, thirty-two and 
one half inches; hair, white; height, five feet seven and three- 
eighths inches. 

HoRTON, I. Chester. 

Civil Engineer and Draftsman with Stone & Webster, 

Boston, Massachusetts. 
Residence, Canton, Massachusetts. 

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Born December 19, 1863, in Canton, Massachusetts. Mar- 
ried to Hattie C. Barbour, November 24, 1885, in Stillwater, 
New York. Children: George Howard, born February 23, 
1887; Mildred Elizabeth, July 15, 1892. Have resided in Me- 
chanicsville, New York; Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio; and 
Canton, Massachusetts. Was elected selectman of the town of 
Canton three successive years, 1900-1902. Have been president 
of the Canton Historical Society and Canton High School Asso- 
ciation, member of parish committee of First Congregational 
Parish (Unitarian), and also superintendent of the Sunday 
school. 

Entered the M. I. T. after graduating from the Canton High 
School. Would not have preferred a college course instead, nor 
in combination, and would "do it again." 

In 1 883-1 884 was rodman and draftsman with Fuller & Whit- 
ney; 1 884-1 885 draftsman with Boston, Hoosac Tunnel & 
Western Railway at Mechanicsville, New York; 1 886-1 887, 
chief draftsman, Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Railway 
during reconstruction from narrow to standard gauge; 1888- 
1892, chief draftsman. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- 
way, at Cleveland, Ohio; 1894- 1904, with Hodges & Harring- 
ton, Street Railway Engineers, Boston; 1905 to present time, 
with Stone & Webster. 

Have not visited the Institute since 1882, but will try to be 
present at the reunion in June, 1909. 

Present weight, one hundred and fifty pounds; chest, thirty- 
eight inches; about the same as in 1884. 

Ilsley, Samuel Marshall. 

527 Marshall Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Born in 1863. Was a resident of Wisconsin in early youth. 
Graduated from the Milwaukee High School before coming to 
the Institute. My life has been handicapped by unstable 
health, I am loath to confess, in these days of healers of divers 
kinds, who claim that no man has any excuse to be ill. Never- 

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theless, I have been, or thought I have been, unable to live a 
strenuous life, and have had to shift about the country at vari- 
ous times on account of climate. For several years after leav- 
ing Tech I knocked about out-of-doors, on farms and ranches 
in Minnesota and Colorado, and finally, in 1890, settled in Santa 
Barbara, California. For about a dozen years — from the early 
nineties — I practised architecture in a small way, and had 
the satisfaction ( .?) of seeing my work on various hill-tops — 
not hid under a bushel. But again I fell into ill-health, and was 
compelled to abandon business and office work, and to seek 
this time a colder climate, to be braced up. I returned to Mil- 
waukee, and there I was soon able to work at least a few hours 
every day; so I turned to literature for an occupation. I have 
had stories in several magazines, and in 1907 I had the mis- 
fortune to win out in a dramatic competition, and have a play 
produced at the New Theatre in Chicago. I say misfortune; 
the play was well enough received to confirm me in the ab- 
sorbing, amusing, elusive, and altogether uncertain profession 
of a playwright — an occupation so much the rage nowadays 
that it is said you can safely turn to your most casual neighbor 
in the cars to demand how he is getting on w4th his play, and be as- 
sured that he will reply that he has finished at least the first act. 

I spent last winter in New York, working on a play with 
rather definite encouragement of production, though the theatre 
is such an uncertain proposition one can never be sure of any- 
thing until after the event. 

I am still unmarried, yet highly envious of all comfortable 
benedicts, and not at all reconciled to bachelorhood even after 
a quarter of a century of it. 

Jarvis, George T. 

General Manager, Rutland Railroad Company. 
Rutland, Vermont. 

Born in New York, August 26, 1859. Married Ruth Rositer 
Eliot, in Erie, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1884. No children. 

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In January, 1876, entered railway service as machinist ap- 
prentice in the Pennsylvania shops, remaining there until 1880, 
in the interim serving as locomotive fireman. After taking a 
special course at the Institute, in Civil Engineering, I served 
from July, 1882, to February, 1883, as superintendent's clerk 
with the Pennsylvania Road. In 1883 entered service with the 
Mexican Central Railway, with headquarters in the City of 
Mexico, filling the positions of chief clerk transportation de- 
partment, trainmaster, and superintendent until 1888, when I 
became superintendent of Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic 
Railroad, with headquarters at Marquette, Michigan. From 
February, 1890, to March, 1891, was superintendent of the 
Ohio Division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at Newark, 
Ohio. From 1891 to 1896, assistant general superintendent of 
the Lake Erie & Western Railroad, at Indianapolis, Indiana. 
From 1896 to 1901, receiver and general manager of Louis- 
ville, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad, and also, from 1897 to 
1 90 1, receiver for New Albany Belt and Terminal Railway. 
From September, 1900, to January, 1901, general manager of 
the Wisconsin Central Railway, with headquarters at Mil- 
waukee, Wisconsin; and from 1902 to date, general manager of 
the Rutland Railroad. 

Realizing while in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
that my education would not qualify me to advance materially, 
I took the special course in civil engineering at the Institute, 
and have always felt that the training there made it possible 
for me to assume additional responsibilities; therefore, my edu- 
cation obtained there has been in constant use, and I would 
certainly "do it again,'' In a railroad career I feel that a course 
at the Institute would prove of great benefit to any one follow- 
ing that line of business. Advancement in railroad service is 
wholly dependent upon application and merit. 

Have twice visited the Institute since leaving there, the last 
time in 1904, and fully intend to be present at the June, 1909, 
reunion. 

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Johnson, Frank Fisk. 

President of First National Bank. 
Wallace, Idaho. 

Born in Wisconsin, November 15, 1862. Married, in 1888, 
to Marie L. Gieson, of Denver, Colorado. Three children: 
Albert Dorman (in Exeter preparing for Harvard); Clara 
Louise (at Dana Hall, Wellesley); and Ellsworth Egbert. 

As a child lived in Colorado, where my father followed 
mining engineering and was later Surveyor-General for that 
State; hence my desire to follow that profession. 

Prepared for M. I. T. in the Denver High School. 

After leaving Tech, drifted away from my profession on ac- 
count of a necessary change of altitude. An advantageous bank- 
ing position offering turned my energies to a commercial instead 
of a professional career. Organized the First National Bank of 
Wallace, Idaho, in 1892; also organized and am president of the 
First National Bank of Twin Falls, located in the heart of the 
great irrigation district of that name in Southern Idaho; also 
identified with the management of several State banks in Idaho. 

Have been treasurer of Shoshone County, Idaho, one term; 
treasurer, and later chairman, of the Republican County Com- 
mittee, retiring in 1906; one of the representatives of Idaho at 
conference with the President on the Conservation of Natural 
Resources, in 1908; president Idaho Bankers' Association, 
1908-1909. A member of Alpha Theta Chapter, Sigma Chi, 
a Shriner, and an Elk. 

Think the years in Tech were of the pleasantest, having a 
keen enjoyment of the work in anticipation of following the 
loved profession in which I had been raised. Have never re- 
gretted my training there, but would advise a college course as 
a foundation where the student has the means and time for 
both. 

Have visited Tech three times since 1884, the reunion in 
1904 being one, and hope to attend the second reunion, in 1909. 



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Kennard, William Parry. 

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1863. Died 
in Auburn, New York, July 21, 1906. He was twice married: 
in April, 1889, in Auburn, New York, to Alice Miller, of Ster- 
ling, Illinois, who died of pneumonia a few months later. In 
May, 1 89 1, he married Delfina de Castro, of Waukegan, Illi- 
nois, and had two children by this marriage: Spencer Parry, 
born February i, 1893, and Richmond Parry, born September 
15, 1896. 

He was prepared for the Institute in the public schools of 
Boston. In 1884 he obtained a position with the United States 
Bunting Company, Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1888 he was 
appointed superintendent of the large woolen mills at Oswego 
Falls, New York. Ill-health compelled him to resign in 1889. 
The next year he engaged in the manufacture of glucose, identi- 
fying himself with the extensive plant of the United States 
Sugar Refinery at Waukegan, Illinois. For ten years he re- 
sided in this vicinity. His beautiful home in Waukegan was 
destroyed by fire, and he suffered many anxieties of a business 
nature. In 1900 he moved to Auburn, New York, and in his 
suburban home here found opportunity to indulge his tastes for 
agricultural pursuits. He was intensely fond of nature and of 
country life, and gave himself with enthusiasm to the study 
and pursuit of scientific agriculture. He was deeply inter- 
ested in poultry-raising and breeding of fancy stock. His 
hospitality was unbounded, and his home a most attractive 
spot to a large circle of friends. The last years of his life 
were shadowed by the serious illness of his wife, which, with 
his other cares and responsibilities, so pressed upon him that 
it affected his own health. His memory is cherished by a host 
of friends. 

Kerr, William Hall. 

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November i, 1856. Died 
June 16, 1895. Married to Alice Maud Getchell, June 25, 1884, 

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in Brookline, Massachusetts. Children: WilHam Caruthers, 
born June i6, 1885; Charles Phillips, born May 11, 1889; 
Spencer Hall, born October 23, 1890; Harold Dabney, born 
October 16, 1892; Margaret Graham, born February 7, 1894; 
Alice Hall, born October 21, 1895. 

Resided in Durham, North Carolina; Ilion, New York (about 
one year, while building machines); Chicago; Concord, North 
Carolina; Ilchester and Catonsville, Maryland, where he was 
president of the Thistle Mills Company cotton-mills. He was 
also an elder of the Catonsville Presbyterian Church; a member 
of the Watauga Club, Raleigh, North Carolina; and was elected 
a member of the Cosmos Club, Washington, District of Colum- 
bia, a short time before his death. 

His preparation for M. I. T. was obtained at Bingham School 
in North Carolina. After leaving the Institute he spent one 
year in the office of the Pacific Mills; then went to Durham, 
North Carolina, where he built and organized the first mill in 
the South for making bobbins and shuttles. Invented a ma- 
chine for making tobacco-bags automatically, and built the 
first experimental machine from the idea up in three months, 
to the surprise and delight of his friends at the Remington 
Works, Ilion. He invented another machine for making large 
flour and salt sacks, and printing them in three colors; he sold 
the rights in this machine, and bought a controlling interest in 
the cotton-mill at Ilchester, Maryland. 

While in Chicago he was a candidate for the professorship of 
mechanical engineering in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 
then just organized, and lost the appointment only because of 
his partial deafness. His greater success in inventive lines 
caused him to feel no regrets for this failure. 

His pleasure and satisfaction in what the Institute had done 
for him led him to wish his sons to be educated there also, and 
two of them are now among its students — in the classes of 
1909 and 191 1. 

Mr. Kerr lost his life in saving that of his second son, who 
had fallen overboard in Annapolis harbor, June 16, 1895. 

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Johns 

Kenn 
Knapp 



OHNSON 
ARD 



Knapp, George F. 

With E. N. Breitung & Company, Lake Superior Iron Ores, 
29 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Born October 15, 1863, in Woburn, Massachusetts. Married 
Elizabeth J. Hawkins, May 28, 1888, at Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts. Children: Kenneth Johnston, born May 5, 1889; 
Enid Elizabeth, born August 30, 1895. 

Have resided in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Maryland, and for 
the past seven years in Cleveland. 

Have held no political, scientific, religious, military or social 
office, it having been necessary for me to "plug" constantly at 
the business end of my life. Have not joined any lodges or secret 
societies; am, however, a member of the American Institute of 
Mining Engineers, the Lake Superior Institute of Mining En- 
gineers, the Forestry Association of Pennsylvania, the Engi- 
neers' Club, New York, etc.; also of the local alumni organiza- 
tions in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago. 

Preparation for the Institute was obtained in the Cambridge 
High School. I look back with pleasure on my student years, 
and often wish I could repeat them and more fully absorb the 
large amount of learning we were given an opportunity to ob- 
tain. 

Taking the old course of metallurgical chemistry, which also 
gave mining, with the idea of being an analytical chemist and 
metallurgist, and preparing for the iron and steel business, I 
immediately selected opportunities offered in that line after 
graduation, and have stayed in it ever since. It may be inter- 
esting to note that I was the last student to graduate from this 
now obsolete course (only one in the Class), which I still con- 
sider the best of those then available. 

My Tech education has shaped my career from the start, 
and the positions held have been due to ability to apply tech- 
nical training to the practical operations of the blast-furnaces, 
steelworks, and iron-ore mines. After spending two years learn- 
ing the practical side of blast-furnace work and chemistry, I 

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went to Steelton, where for five years I was general superin- 
tendent of the blast-furnace department. This led to the posi- 
tion of assistant to the president (or really general superin- 
tendent) at the new plant of the Steel Company at Baltimore 
and Sparrow's Point, composed of blast-furnaces, Bessemer 
steel works, rolling-mills and shops, docks, etc. Unfortunately, 
the panic of 1893 caused a receiver to be appointed and this 
plant was idle for two years, during which time I severed my 
connection with manufacturing, and engaged in the iron ore, 
or raw material end of the iron and steel business, which also 
included mining and is still my line of business. 

Would I "do it again".'* Yes; but would prefer a college 
course first, then a postgraduate course at Tech. I wish to 
carry this out with my boy, who is now at Dartmouth and ex- 
pects to be a civil engineer. This prevents specializing before 
the student appreciates what he is studying, also gives him 
more English, which all Tech students miss, and he goes into 
the world older, more developed, and better able to apply his 
knowledge. 

Have visited the Institute about five times, the last time six 
years ago. 

Present weight, one hundred and fifty-eight pounds; circum- 
ference, thirty-seven inches; about the same in 1884. 

KwoNG, King Young. 

Engineer-in-Chief, Kwang Tung Yueh-Han Railway Com- 
pany (Hankow-Canton line). Canton, China. 

Born on the eighth of February, 1863. Married to Miss Liang, 
in Canton, China, December, 1888. Have now four children 
— two sons and two daughters. The sons were born in May, 
1899, and March, 1907; and the daughters, in November, 
1896, and April, 1901. Reside now in the city of Canton, 
where the head office of the Kwang Tung Yueh-Han Railway 
Company (Canton-Hankow line) of the province of Kwang 
Tung is. Official rank in the Chinese government is a Taotai, 

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and am an adviser to the Board of Communication at Peking 
in railway matters; also a member of the American Society 
of Civil Engineers. 

Was sent by the Chinese government, with one hundred and 
nineteen others, to America to be educated during the years 
1 872-1 875. On my arrival in America in 1874 I studied the 
English language under the guardianship of Miss D. C. Miller, 
of Easthampton, Massachusetts. Entered the Williston Semi- 
nary of the same place in 1878, from which I entered the 
M. I. T. in 1880. It was my intention to finish the course in 
civil engineering in M. I. T., but I was recalled by the Chi- 
nese government along with all the Chinese students, and was 
therefore obliged to leave the country during August, 1881. 

Since my return to China my career has been one of steady 
work, with hardly any interruption; and with the exception of 
the first five years spent in a coal-mining concern, 1 882-1 887, 
have been wholly engaged in railroad work, and, in fact, one 
of the first who took part in the building of the first railway in 
China, the Tongshan-Tientsin line, in 1887. My career in 
railroading therefore commenced at the same time as the rail- 
road enterprise commenced in China. Worked as a junior 
assistant engineer on the construction of the Tongshan-Tientsin 
line (part of the Imperial line) in 1887; promoted to resident 
engineer in 1893; from that time to 1900 took part in the 
construction of the line outside of the Great Wall of China, 
which now joins the Manchurian Railway at Mukden. Owing 
to the Boxer trouble I left North China, after Peking and the 
railways were taken by the allied forces, in 1900. From 1901 
to 1902, resident engineer on the Ping Hsiang-Li Ling Railway 
in the province of Kiangsi, a line of thirty miles in length. In 
1903 rejoined the Imperial Railways of North China, and was 
district engineer in charge of forty-five miles of line. In 1904 
was in charge of the construction of the Hanku bridge, com- 
posed of two spans of two hundred feet, one span of ninety feet, 
and one of fifty feet. The central pier was sunk by the pneu- 

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made process. In 1905 was appointed district engineer of fifty 
miles of line in the Peking- Kalgan Railway. In August, 1906, 
received appointment as engineer-in-chief of the Kwang Tung 
Yueh-Han Railway Company, for the construction of the 
Canton-Hankow Railway in the province of Kwang Tung, and 
at present am still holding this position. 

Linton, Laura A., M.D. 

Assistant Physician in State Hospital for the Insane, 
Rochester, Minnesota. 

From 1883 to 1884 had charge of the scientific department 
of Lombard University, Galesburg, Illinois; resigned at close 
of year to accept position as teacher of chemistry and physics in 
Central High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, remaining there 
until 1895. 

During summer of 1894 did some research work on asphaltum 
in the laboratory of the Southern California Oil Company, 
Santa Paula, California; results embodied in an article published 
under the title "On the Technical Analysis of Asphaltum." 

From 1895 to 1896 was in the University of Michigan in 
analysis of asphaltum and in further study of chemistry and 
physics. Published a second paper on analysis of asphaltum. 

From 1896 to 1900 was a student in the medical department 
of the University of Minnesota, and during two years of that 
time was also assistant in the Laboratory of Physiological 
Chemistry. 

From 1900 to present time, have been assistant physician in 
hospital at Rochester, Minnesota. 

Lull, George F. 
Fibre Expert. 
Randolph, New York. 

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1856, a descendant of 
the historic Adams family. Married Maude E. Weeden, of 
Buffalo, New York. 

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KWONG 

Kerr 
Lull 



Am a member and vestryman of Grace Church, Protestant 
Episcopal. Past Master of Masonic Lodge, Chapter Mason, 
Captain Sons of Veterans, member of I. O. O. F., and of Sigma 
Chi Alpha, Theta Chapter. 

Early education was obtained in the Cambridge public 
schools, from which, on a competitive examination, I entered 
the United States Military Academy at West Point, class of '78. 
One year later, my eyes failing, I was obliged to give up study 
for a time. Was military instructor for four years in Boston 
public institutions. Entered the Institute at the commencement 
of the Sophomore year of the Class of '84, remaining until nearly 
the close of the Junior year with the Civils, and returned in the 
Senior year to take a special few months' work in chemistry. 
Left the Institute to enter into pulp and paper mill work, and 
while thus engaged filled practically every position in the mill. 
While with the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company privi- 
leges were granted enabling me to enter the class of '86 of the 
University of Maine, in chemistry; graduated with the degree 
of B.S., and afterwards obtained the M.S. degree. Contin- 
uing as fibre specialist, I was advanced from chemist to super- 
intendent, in which capacity I have rendered service in several 
of the largest mills in the United States. Starting in when soda 
and sulphite fibre were in their infancies, I have followed closely 
all modern improvements along these lines. For the past few 
years I have given most of my time to expert work, being called 
in by many of the large manufacturers to give advice on eco- 
nomic conditions. Through consultation with these manu- 
facturers I have enjoyed peculiar opportunities of becoming 
familiar with their minutest details, and have frequently had 
the good fortune to rectify what was amiss. Original research 
on cotton and flax wastes has developed new possibilities for 
these fibres. Have lectured on pulp and paper making at tech- 
nical schools and colleges. 

Present weight, one hundred and seventy pounds; in 1884, 
one hundred and sixty-seven pounds. 

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Lund, Amy M. (Stantial). 

Born in Melrose, Massachusetts, April 19, i860. Died in 
February, 1888. In July, 1886, she was married to James 
Lund, of Maiden. 

During her earlier years she showed no special predilection 
for those studies that later so absorbed her attention; but a 
pleasant round of riding, sailing, archery, etc., with the cus- 
tomary school work, filled up the rapidly passing years. In 
1878 she graduated from the Melrose High School with honors, 
and about this time began to be interested in scientific studies, 
induced in part, perhaps, through correspondence with her elder 
brother, who had graduated from the Institute and was engaged 
in chemical work in Montreal. In 1880 she entered the Insti- 
tute, first as a special student. Many will remember the old, 
one-story brick building, standing in a depression a little south 
of the present Rogers Building; here was a chemical laboratory, 
known in those days as the Woman's Laboratory, and it was 
here that she worked the first year. In the second year she de- 
cided to take the regular course in chemistry, and, not content 
with anything less than the regulation work, she, together with 
Miss Alice I. Brown, interviewed President Walker and finally 
won his consent for admission to the regular laboratories. This 
was an innovation, she and Miss Brown being the pioneer 
women students in this respect. 

After graduation she worked for two years as private assistant 
to the late Professor William Ripley Nichols. The latter, while 
still retaining all his mental vigor, was already failing physically, 
and more than the ordinary amount of work and responsibility 
fell upon his assistant, whose duties were most faithfully and 
efficiently performed. 

She proved herself as efficient as a home-maker as in her 
scientific work, but lived only a year and a half after her mar- 
riage to Mr. Lund. She possessed the rare combination of a 
keen scientifically trained mind together with those other 
qualities that go to make up one of those gentle, generous, 
lovable characters for whom the world is always better. 

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Luther, William J. 

Superintendent of the Attleboro Gaslight Company. 
Attleboro, Massachusetts. 

Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, September 4, 1862. Mar- 
ried Minnie H. Niles, of North Attleboro, in October, 1884. 
Children: Howard B., born in 1886; Warren B., born in 1887; 
Helen D., born in 1895. My elder son is a graduate of the Insti- 
tute in the class of '08, and now assistant in civil engineering; 
my younger son is a member of the class of '11, Brown Uni- 
versity; and my daughter is a freshman in the Attleboro High 
School. 

In 1873 moved to Attleboro, where I attended the public 
schools, graduating from the high school in 1880; then spent a 
year in the private school of Mowry & GofF, at Providence, 
and in the fall of '81 entered the Institute. 

In 1883 opened an office in Attleboro as a civil engineer. 
In 1892 was engaged in the construction of the additions to the 
Attleboro Water-Works; and in 1893, upon the completion of 
the work, was made superintendent and registrar of the Water 
Department. In 1898 became superintendent of the Attleboro 
Gaslight Company, and have almost entirely rebuilt the works 
during the last ten years. 

A considerable portion of my time has been occupied in the 
care of trust estates. In 1887 was made executor and trustee 
under the will of Gideon M. Horton, and have been connected 
with the management of the property for the heirs to the 
present time, and have had charge of other estates here. 

Lyle, Colonel David Alexander (Retired). 
Traveling. 
Born January 21, 1845, in Ohio. Was appointed from Ohio 
as cadet to the United States Military Academy in 1865, and 
graduated in 1869. Transferred from Artillery to Ordnance in 
1874; reached rank of Colonel in 1907; retired on account of 
age in 1909. 

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Before coming to the Institute served (in 1870) in garrison at 
Alcatraz Island, California, and was assistant engineer on sur- 
vey of Presidio Reservation, San Francisco, California; the 
same year, also on frontier duty at Fort Wrangel, Alaska; and, 
in 1 87 1, at Sitka, in charge of indigent Russian population. 
Was official Chinook-English interpreter in various Indian coun- 
cils. In 1 871-1872, with an exploring expedition in Nevada 
and Arizona, being assistant engineer and commanding cav- 
alry escort. In 1 875-1 876 made a study of the manufac- 
ture and treatment of leather, following the process step by step 
in a tannery in order to qualify as a leather expert and in- 
spector of leather, and thus increase efficiency as an ordnance 
officer. 

Became a student at M. I. T. in 1883, taking a course in 
mining engineering in order to prepare for the duties of inspector 
of ordnance and ordnance construction; this course was at his 
own expense, and without being relieved from duties as ord- 
nance officer. Received his S.B. in 1884, and continued on 
metallurgical work in connection with the new armament until 
1902, performing, however, various other duties. 

In 1886 visited England, France, Germany, and Italy, to test 
armor-plate, visit factories, etc., in connection with ordnance 
construction. In 1889 was sent to Paris Exposition as Military 
Assistant to United States Commissioner-General, was a mem- 
ber of various juries, and received the same year from the French 
Republic the Cross of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Was 
at one time assistant professor of natural and experimental 
philosophy at the United States Military Academy. Inspector 
of ordnance at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. Very 
few breakages or accidents have occurred among the many 
thousands of forgings and castings destined for use in sea- 
coast armament which passed through his hands. 

Took command of the Augusta Arsenal in Georgia in 1902, 
and became chief ordnance officer. Department of the Gulf, in 
January, 1904, district including all the fortifications on the 

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f 




mm 






Luther 

Lyle 

Mead 



South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from Wilmington, North Caro- 
lina, to Galveston, Texas. 

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science; member of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
neers; of the National Geographic Society; honorary member 
of the Federation des officers et sous-officers de sapeurs- 
pompiers de France et d'Algerie; member of the Cosmos Club, 
Washington, District of Columbia; vice-president of the Alumni 
Association of M. I. T. (1888-1889). 

Author of numerous articles and reports — eighty-three titles 
— and collaborator on the "Century Dictionary." — Compiled 
from Colonel Lyle^s Outline of Service Record. 

"Upon the establishment of the Board on Wreck Ordnance, 
in May, 1879, Lieutenant Lyle was appointed a member, and 
later, when that Board was superseded by the Board on Life- 
Saving Appliances, in January, 1882, he was appointed a mem- 
ber of that Board, with which he has served continuously to 
the present time. This duty has entailed upon him much in- 
vestigation of and experiment with plans and inventions sub- 
mitted to the Board. His work in this capacity has been of the 
highest importance by reason of his scientific education and 
broad technical training. A statement of his work on the 
Board, covering a period of thirty years, would be a catalogue 
of practically all the more important devices submitted to the 
Board. 

"His principal achievement, the Lyle gun, which he placed at 
the disposition of the United States Government, as well as 
every other nation, without patent or royalty, has proved to be 
by far the most important modern acquisition to life-saving 
apparatus, and has been instrumental in the rescue of nearly 
4,500 shipwrecked persons in this Service alone. It is ex- 
tensively used on board vessels for effecting line communication 
with the shore, and is also well known and in use in various 
maritime countries." — From a Letter by the Superintendent of 
the United States Life-Savin g Service. 

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Maynard, Amy (Barnes). 

Northborough, Massachusetts. 

Born September 29, 1859, in Northborough. Married Pro- 
fessor Samuel T. Maynard, June 16, 1892. Children: Ednah 
Barnes, born February 13, 1896; Edward Barnes, born May 29, 
1898. 

Residences have been Northborough and Amherst, Massa- 
chusetts. 

President and founder of Amherst Women's Club, president 
of Unity Church Woman's Alliance, local secretary of Massa- 
chusetts State Audubon Society, lecturer for Society for the 
Preservation of Our Native Plants, member of the Northborough 
Historical Society. 

My preparation for the Institute was obtained in the North- 
borough High School. The course in chemistry at the Institute 
helped to fit me for the profession of teacher in cooking; taught 
three years in Worcester; later in New Bedford, Leicester, 
Salem, West Newton, Newtonville, Westboro, Fitchburg, 
Leominster, Clinton, Northampton. In 1885 taught public- 
school classes in the first public "School Kitchen," under the 
patronage of Mrs. Hemenway; designed the "horseshoe desks'' 
now in use all over the country, and introduced a new system 
of teaching school classes, which system has been used all over 
the country since; later introduced my plans in Minneap- 
olis and St. Paul, Minnesota. Wrote "Cooking-School Re- 
ceipts" and published two editions; also a series of cooking- 
school cards for classes. In 1890 to 1891 taught in New York 
Cooking-School, and conducted a normal class. After my mar- 
riage, in 1892, devoted myself for the next ten years to my 
family, and to the welfare and interests of the students of the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, with which institution 
Professor Maynard was connected. 

Have found the education obtained at the Institute helpful 
in my lines of work of teaching, lecturing, and housekeeping; 
would "do it again," and more. Have always regretted not 

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having had a college course in connection with the M. I. T. 
course. 

Have often visited the Institute since graduation, and intend 
to be there at the June reunion. 

Mead, Frederic S. 

Commission Merchant, 35 North Market Street, Boston. 
Residence, Arlington, Massachusetts. 

Born February i, 1863, in West Acton, Massachusetts. 
Married, September 18, 1884, to L. M. Gates, in West Acton. 
Children: Fred S., Jr., born September 18, 1885; Edward A., 
born March 30, 1896. Have held the offices of president Boston 
Fruit and Produce Exchange, 1906; selectman Town of Arling- 
ton, 1 906-1 908; chairman of Board, 1908; director and treasurer 
Boston Market Credit Association; member of Boston Chamber 
of Commerce; vice-president National Poultry and Game 
Association. 

Preparation for M. I. T. was obtained at the Chauncy Hall 
School. Had I the opportunity, would "do it again" in regard 
to my Institute course. Shall try to attend the reunion in June, 
1909. 

My present weight is one hundred and ififty pounds; height, 
five feet, eleven inches, same as in '84; slightly bald, but not 
gray-haired yet. 

Mellen, Edwin D. 

Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 23, 1861. 
Married Adele Lods Adams, at Annisquam, Massachusetts, 
September 5, 1883. Children: Lucile Christina, born July 5, 
1886; James Edwin, born June 7, 1897; Richard Adams, born 
June 3, 1900; Adele Louise, born October 29, 1903. 

At various times I have been a member of or an official of 
many civic, political, mercantile, religious, military, and social 
commissions, committees, boards of directors, or advisory 

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boards. Am a member of Citizens' Trade Association, Cam- 
bridgeport Savings Bank, Young Men's Christian Association, 
First Volunteer Citizens' Association, Good Government 
League, Cambridge Club, Colonial Club, Newtowne Club, all 
of Cambridge; Cambridge Battalion M. V. M., Grand Army 
Posts, Technology Club, Society of Arts, M. I. T., Boston 
Chamber of Commerce, American Chemical Society, Society 
of Chemical Industry, American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers, Franklin Institute, and others. 

I received my education in the public schools of Cambridge, 
supplemented by one year at the Chauncy Hall School, Boston. 
I had a definite purpose in entering the Institute, — to obtain 
special training for application in a chemical industry, soap 
and glycerine manufacture. Urgent requirements for my service 
obliged me to reduce the time at the Institute to two years, and 
I have always regretted that I was unable to remain with my 
class throughout the course. 

My business career began as a wage-earner with Curtis, 
Davis & Company, soap manufacturers of Boston and Cam- 
bridge. I did not work in the laboratory, but nevertheless found 
the training obtained at M. I. T. of inestimable value in its 
application to commercial pursuits. I early found that a purely 
chemical training was deficient in its preparation for an in- 
dustrial career. The training in the sciences which are now in- 
cluded in the Chemical Engineering course had to be acquired 
by self-instruction. The ability to analyze motives, methods, 
operations, and functions, as well as substances, acquired in 
the training in the sciences, made it possible to improve proc- 
esses and operations which were not only of great value to the 
business in which I was occupied, but to the industry at large. 

Had I my life to live over again I would surely prepare for it 
by a technical training. I would specialize in order to enter 
active business life as early as possible. Were I able to do so, 
had I the time at command, I would now return to the M. I. T. 
for research work. 

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Mellen 

Merryman 

Morse 



I often look back upon my student days with feelings of 
pride that I was associated with men, in the formative period 
of their Hves, so large a proportion of whom have so well ful- 
filled the tasks and responsibilities which have been put upon 
them. 

I visit M. I. T. each year, and intend to be present at the 
reunion in June, 1909. 

In 1884 my weight was one hundred and thirty-two pounds; 
waist measure, thirty-two inches. There has been no change in 
my physique during the twenty-five years; the only change I 
note or feel is aging eyesight. 

Merryman, William C. 

Resident Engineer for New York Rapid Transit Railroad. 
Residence, 537 West 149th Street, New York City. 

Born March 23, 1861, in Brunswick, Maine. Married, 
January 3, 1888, to Mary Manning Sylvester, in Portland, 
Maine. Children: Alfred Palmer, born February 4, 1890; 
Helen Lemont, born September 8, 1891. Resided in St. Paul, 
Minnesota, 1883-1898; Buffalo, New York, 1898-1899; Bruns- 
wick, Maine, 1 899-1 900; New York City, 1900 to date. 

Graduated from Bowdoin College in class of 1882, with de- 
gree of A.B.; received degree of A.M. from Bowdoin in 1885 
and C.E. in 1902. 

From 1883 to 1885 was rodman and assistant engineer on 
St. Paul Water- Works; 1 885-1 890, assistant city engineer of St. 
Paul — first two years in Bridge Department, third year in High- 
way Department, last two in Sewer Department; 1 890-1 895, in 
private practice of engineering, doing business in the Northwest 
in nearly all branches, principally railroad and city work; 1895- 
1898, assistant engineer in charge of bridge construction on 
Great Northern Railroad from St. Paul to the Pacific Coast; 
1 898-1 899, engineer of grade-crossings for New York Central 
& Hudson River Railroad at Buffalo; 1 899-1 900, division 

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engineer of West Virginia Short Line Railroad, Meyersville, 
West Virginia, and engineer for Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving 
Company on hydraulic work at Schwinigen Falls, Canada; 
1900 to date, engineer of Third and Fourth Divisions of Rapid 
Transit Subway Construction Company, building New York 
Rapid Transit Railroad. 

Member of American Society of Civil Engineers, of New 
York Railroad Club, of Alumni Association of Phi Beta Kappa, 
United Lodge No. 8 F. and A. M., Brunswick, Maine. 

Have visited M. L T. twice since graduation, last time in 
1894. Weight in 1884, about one hundred and twenty pounds; 
at present, about one hundred and forty-five pounds. 

Morse, Philip Sidney. 

Manager of the Sulphide Corporation, Limited, Cockle 

Creek, New South Wales. 
Residence, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. 

Born January 4, 1859, in Boston. Married, March 4, 1886, 
to Sarah Eliza Holden, in Cleveland, Ohio. Children: Sterne, 
born May 31, 1887; Robert Emery, born April 17, 1890, now 
of the class of 191 1, M. L T. Mrs. Morse died in Cleveland 
October 25, 1896. 

Graduated from Harvard College July, 1881. In September, 
1884, went to Pueblo, Colorado, in the employ of the Pueblo 
Smelting and Refining Company; remained there until 1887. 
From 1887 to 1889 with the Tomichi Valley Smelting Com- 
pany at Gunnison, Colorado, and from 1889 to 1894 with the 
Germania Lead Works, Salt Lake City, Utah. From 1897 to 
1900 was with the Arkansas Valley & Union Smelting Plants, 
Leadville, Colorado. From there went to New South Wales, to 
the Smelting Company of Australia, at Dapto. In 1902 be- 
came manager of the Sulphide Corporation with which I am 
still connected. 



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Newell 
Noble 

NORRIS 



Newell, Frederick H. 

Director United States Reclamation Service. 
Residence, 2101 S Street, Washington, D. C. 

Born March 5, 1862, in Bradford, Pennsylvania. Married, 
April 3, 1890, to Effie J. Mackintosh, in Milton, Massachusetts. 
Children: Josephine, born September 11, 1891; Constance, 
born October 21, 1896; Roger Sherman, born February 24, 
1898; John Mackintosh, born April 20, 1904. 

Since leaving the Institute have traveled w^idely throughout 
the United States, visiting every State and nearly every county 
v^est of the Missouri River, mapping the reservoir sites, meas- 
uring the streams, and studying the extent to v^hich arid regions 
may be reclaimed. Similar explorations and measurements 
have to a less extent been carried on throughout the eastern 
part of the United States. 

Have been identified with various scientific and technical 
organizations; in particular, secretary of the National Geo- 
graphic Society; secretary of the American Forestry Associa- 
tion; member of American Society of Civil Engineers; American 
Institute of Mining Engineers; member of the Cosmos Club, of 
the Public Lands Commission, of the Inland Waterways Com- 
mission, and of the United States Advisory Board on Fuels and 
Structural Materials; President of the Washington Society of 
Engineers, and a member of the Corporation of the Institute 
of Technology. 

Have written a number of reports and articles on geographic 
subjects, hydrography and related matters, especially in govern- 
ment publications. Have published reports on Irrigation, and 
a book entitled "Irrigation in the United States." 

Preparation for the Institute of Technology was relatively 
poor and incomplete; it consisted of education in the grammar 
school of Needham, Massachusetts, and three years in the New- 
ton High School, followed by a year out of school assisting in 
my father's business. The first half-year at the Institute was, 
therefore, difficult, and many "conditions" were obtained, 

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which were removed only by great exertion during the latter 
part of the first year. Was with the Class of '84 during the 
Freshman year and first half of the second year, leaving early 
in the spring of 1882 and taking up surveying in Western 
Pennsylvania and in Colorado. Returned to the Institute in 
the spring of 1883, and continued with the class of 'S^ until 
graduation; after graduation remained for a postgraduate 
course for two years, taking in particular geologic and hydraulic 
subjects. 

The student years at the Institute were to a certain extent 
monotonous and uneventful, save for the new work occasionally 
taken up. It was found necessary to establish a rigid course of 
systematic study in order to compensate for lack of prepara- 
tion, and to maintain this with little intermission until toward 
the time of graduation. On the whole it was pleasant, but there 
were none of the events which seem to be so prominent in col- 
lege life. 

Leaving the Institute, the reaction from systematic work to 
relatively unsystematic private employment resulted in dis- 
couragement as to the value of the effort made. On getting into 
regular work, however, it was soon appreciated that the training 
at the Institute was invaluable. 

In 1888 was employed as assistant hydraulic engineer in the 
United States Geological Survey and instructed to begin the 
investigation of the extent to which the arid lands might be 
reclaimed by irrigation. This work has been continued without 
break from that date, but under various designations and with 
gradually increasing opportunities and responsibilities. In 
1890 and 1 89 1 the appropriation for this work was cut off, and 
for some time temporary employment was obtained with the 
Census Office in preparing reports upon irrigation. In 1894 a 
definite appropriation was secured from Congress, and was in- 
creased year by year until it reached ^200,000, for gauging the 
streams and determining the water-supply. The education of 
the public in the value of work of this character finally resulted 

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in the passage of the law of June 17, 1902, setting aside the 
proceeds from the disposal of public lands for the construction 
of works for the irrigation of arid and semi-arid areas and the 
creation of farms upon the waste lands of the West. 

The education gained by varied experience, supplemented 
by the many difficulties at the outset, has been utilized in plan- 
ning and developing these works for the storage of waste water, 
the creation of electric power, its transmission, the pumping 
of water to the land, as well as the building of gravity works, 
the consideration of chemical, physical, and biological problems. 
All have called into full play the range of instruction given at 
the Institute. 

With the gift of prevision it would have been difficult to 
choose a much better course than that which was selected; 
namely, the mining course, with its mathematics, geology, 
chemistry, and practical work. It is possible that from the 
cultural side it would have been preferable to have a gen- 
eral college education, and then, on top of this, to have the 
technical training of the Institute; not having had the benefit 
of the classical education, it is difficult to appreciate what its 
value might have been. 

Have been at the Institute frequently since 1884, ^^ l^^st 
once or twice a year; and since election as a member of the 
Corporation, every two or three months. Hope to be at the 
reunion in 1909. 

Weight in 1884, about one hundred and forty-three pounds; 
at present, about one hundred and seventy-three pounds; added 
weight wholly in circumference about the plane of the equator; 
say, from thirty inches in 1884 to thirty-eight inches plus. 

Noble, Orville R. 

Manager of the Noble & Cooley Company. 
Granville, Massachusetts. 

Born in Granville, Massachusetts, November 23, 1861. 
Attended the Worcester Academy as a preparatory school for 

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the Institute, which I entered in September, 1880. Left in May, 
1882, and was granted a certificate of honorable dismission. 
Then became connected with the Noble & Cooley Company, 
manufacturers of drums, toys, and novelties, with whom I have 
since remained, becoming manager of the company. 

NoRRis, George H. 
Merchant. 
186 East Water Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Born October 2, 1861, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Married, 
October 2, 1890, to Edith L. Forbush. Children: Ralph For- 
bush, born March 9, 1892; Charles Brazer, born April 2, 1894. 

Have always lived in Milwaukee. Am a member of the Mil- 
waukee Athletic Club. 

Will try to be present at the reunion in June, 1909. 

Weight now, one hundred and ninety-six pounds; in 1884, 
one hundred and forty-eight. Circumference now thirty-eight 
inches; that in '84 not recorded. 

O'Brien, William L. 

Born June 27, 1862, in Baltimore, Maryland. Died in 
MinneapoHs, September 19, 1906. Married, May 14, 1889, to 
Emma Oswald, in Minneapolis. Daughter, Alice, born March 
20, 1890. 

Resided in Minneapolis until his death, and was a member 
of the Minneapolis Club, Minneapolis Commercial Club, Min- 
nekahda Club, Lafayette Club. 

His entire life was devoted to literary work; he successfully 
managed the Minneapolis Times for a number of years, and 
held other important posts on Minneapolis and St. Paul papers. 
Although his work was largely confined to the press, he wrote 
for the stage, one of his plays, "Benedict Arnold,'* being pro- 
duced with much credit in Minneapolis in 1899. Another, 
"Aaron Burr," was just completed at the time of his death. 
Though not active in the field of journalism in his later years, 

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Otis 

Park 



he did, however, up to the time of his death, devote some of 
his leisure moments to writing for various publications, simply 
as a pastime. As a versatile writer and wit he had few supe- 
riors; he never wrote anything that lacked the stamp of orig- 
inality. 

Otis, Herbert Foster. 

Holland Road, Brookline, Massachusetts. 

Born September 2, i86i, in Boston, Massachusetts. Mar- 
ried, September 2, 1893, to Ethel Whiting, in Boston. Settled 
in Brookline in 1896. Children: James, born June 17, 1898; 
Mary, born December 21, 1904. 

A member of the Essex Agricultural Institute, National 
Geographic Society, Bostonian Society, Appalachian Moun- 
tain and Somerset Clubs. 

Prepared for the Institute of Technology at Nichols' School, 
Boston; entered the Institute with Class of '84, taking regular 
architectural course for two and one-half years. Entered the 
office of Arthur Little, architect, March, 1883. 

From 1885 to 1892 traveled extensively over America, 
Canada, Europe, and India. 

Park, Dean William. 

Born September 14, 1862, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Mar- 
ried, September 27, 1884, to Alice E. Locke, of Boston, in 
Georgetown, Colorado. Children: Carl J., born October 13, 
1885; Harriet, born February 7, 1887. 

Have resided in Georgetown and Denver, Colorado; El Paso, 
Texas; Corralitos, Mexico; Great Falls, Montana; Coulter- 
ville, California; Cerro de Pasco, Peru, South America; San 
Francisco and Palo Alto, California. 

Belong to the Masons and Knights of Pythias. 

Prepared for the Institute with special work in chemistry in 
the high school, which enabled me to pass the examination in 

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the first year's work in that branch, making me a "special" in 
two classes for two years. 

I listened to Greeley's advice and came west, and found the 
Westerners were so intent on securing the so-called "practical" 
men that one who had ever looked into a book on mining was 
considered too impractical to push a tram-car. To go into 
assaying and smelting was then the most natural course, and 
the one which I followed almost constantly until 1905. Now I 
make motions behind a transit out in the fresh air. 

Sure, I'd do it again, and take more time to do it; also bring 
some good letters when I came west. 

Have visited the Institute twice, last time in October, 1904, 
and shall try to be present in 1909. 

[Since writing the above Mr. Park has died as the tragic 
result of a bicycle accident. May 5, 1909. — Ed.] 

Perin, Clifford. 

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1862. Died May 26, 1902. 
Married May Clagett, in Washington, District of Columbia, and 
had one daughter, Margaret May, born in 1894. 

He entered the Institute in September, 1880, having pre- 
viously been a student at the Chickering Institute in Cincinnati. 
His father, Mr. Oliver Perin, a prominent banker of Cincinnati, 
died in December, 1880, and Mr. Perin left the Institute at 
that time, receiving a certificate of honorable dismission. 

His death occurred while on his yacht in Curtis Bay, near 
Baltimore. He had been seriously ill during the winter, but 
had much improved in health toward spring, and was planning 
to take a pleasure-trip on his boat to Southern waters, when he 
died quite suddenly, with paralysis of the heart, He was widely 
known socially in Cincinnati, Baltimore, and other places. He 
was a member of the Metropolitan Club of Washington, the 
Queen City Club of Cincinnati, and of the Baltimore Yacht 
Club. — From Technology Review of ig02. 



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Poland, Samuel Phinney. 

241 1 South Atherton Street, Berkeley, California. 
" Born in Topsham, Maine, February 29, 1856. Unmarried. 

Graduated from Brunswick (Maine) High School, where I 
received special instruction for entrance to Bowdoin College. 
Spent one year in civil engineering course at Bowdoin, and 
entered M. I. T. in second-year work. 

Most assuredly would "do it again." Would have preferred 
a full course at M. I. T. rather than a college course, or one in 
combination with M. I. T. 

Have used the education obtained in all my work to good 
advantage. Change of location and necessity of keeping busy 
have led to different kinds of work, all of which have drawn on 
my civil engineering knowledge. For four years was working 
with Col. George E. Waring, of Newport, Rhode Island; after 
that in California as assistant engineer and accountant with a 
railway company; for three years at Denver, Colorado, for the 
Durham House Drainage Company; and at Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, as engineer and superintendent of construction. From 
1 89 1 to 1894 was engineer and superintendent for the Smead 
Warming and Ventilating Company at Denver, New York, 
Boston, and Nashua, N. H.; since 1894 have been engaged in 
engineering and mining at Cincinnati, Ohio, San Francisco and 
other places in California, and El Paso, Texas. In 1908 took a 
much needed rest, and probably in 1909 shall be gold-mining 
in California. 

Member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity (Lambda Chapter) at 
Bowdoin College. 

Cannot arrange to attend the reunion in June, 1909. 

Pratt, A. Stuart. 

With Stone & Webster Management Association, 147 Milk 

Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Residence, West Newton, Massachusetts. 
Born September 3, 1861, in West Newton, Massachusetts. 

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Married in 1884, in West Newton, to Josephine A. Stewart. 
Four children — two boys and two girls. 

During early married life was in the cattle business in Ne- 
braska, having headquarters at Omaha, but being on the range 
most of the year. Owing to railroad development in the western 
part of the State, the business was closed out, and have since 
lived continuously in West Newton; business mainly carried on 
in Boston, though at times I have had to take trips to various 
parts of the country. 

Joined the Masonic Fraternity in Nebraska, and am now a 
member of Dalhousie Lodge, F. and A. M., of Newton. Have 
been a member of the Brae Burn Country Club since its organ- 
ization, and also a member of the Exchange and City Clubs of 
Boston. 

Preparation for M. I. T. in Newton public schools, and 
believe the best grade of such schools far preferable for the 
average boy to the average private school as found in this part 
of the country. 

In looking over my school-days, am inclined to the belief 
that where possible a college course prior to that of the Institute 
is a great advantage in after-life. I am led to this belief both 
from observation of young men who have had that training, 
and from my realization to-day of how little I knew when I 
began my business career. I think the added years spent in 
school would have more than compensated for the delay in 
entering business. In other words, man has but little commer- 
cial value until he has a certain amount of maturity of thought. 

Prescott, Charles O. 

Treasurer of the Westford Water Company. 
Westford, Massachusetts. 

Born in Westford, Massachusetts, February 4, 1855. Un- 
married. 

Prepared for M. I. T. at Westford Academy. Entered the 
Institute in 1873, and followed a special course until 1876. 

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Puffer 



From 1878 to 1881 taught in a boys' school in Plymouth, 
Massachusetts. Returned to the Institute in 1881 for further 
study, and graduated in the course in chemistry in 1884. From 
1884 to 1885 was assistant in the chemical laboratory at the In- 
stitute; 1885 and 1886, spent in traveling in New Zealand, Aus- 
tralia, India, and Japan; 1886 to 1889, taught in a boys' school 
in Plymouth, Massachusetts; 1889 to 1905, taught German and 
chemistry at Milton Academy, From 1905 to present time have 
lived in Westford, and at present am a member of the School 
Board, trustee of the Public Library, trustee of the Westford 
Academy, treasurer of First Parish Church; a member of the 
Twentieth Century Club and the Boston City Club. 

Price, Walter B. 
Address unknown. 

Born in 1863. Entered the Institute in September, 1880, 
coming from Jefferson City, Missouri. Had been a student at 
the Kemper Family School prior to entering the Institute. Left 
the Institute in 1881, and has not since been heard from directly. 
He was met, however, by a former classmate in New York City, 
in 1900, at which time he was reported to be president and 
general manager of the Runskool Metal Company, then at 13 
Cedar Street. 

Puffer, William Lewis. 

Electrical Engineer, 307 Equitable Building, Boston. 
Residence, 198 Mt. Vernon Street, West Newton, Massa- 
chusetts. 

Born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, July 15, i860. The greater 
part of my school life was spent in Boston, where I attended 
Chauncy Hall School until I entered the Institute. After grad- 
uation I entered the Physical Department of the Institute as 
assistant in physics, and was promoted to instructor in 1888. 
Married Anna W. Bailey, of Trenton, New Jersey, on the 
eighth of August, 1888, and have resided in West Newton ever 

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since. Have four children: Isabella W., born in 1889; Lewis R., 
born in 1892; Dorothy H., born in 1894; Fannie B., born in 

1899- 

Became assistant professor of electrical engineering in 1893, 

associate professor in 1901, and resigned in 1907. Asso- 
ciate member American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 
1893; full member in 1895; member of the Illuminating Engi- 
neering Society; member of Jury of Awards at Buffalo in 1901. 
Was lecturer in the Lowell Free Courses at the M. I. T. several 
years; in the Wells Memorial Institute for Workingmen, 1890- 
1908; in the Lowell School for Industrial Foremen. Consulting 
engineer for the Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance 
Companies. Have belonged to and held office in a number of 
local societies and clubs. 

As I look back over my twenty-five years' work at teaching 
and helping the building up of the Institute of to-day, I see 
that there are great differences between now and the time I left 
the Institute as a student, which did not seem so apparent 
until I began to write them out and think backwards. The 
biggest difference is in the opportunities we had then as com- 
pared with those now available. We had relatively nothing in 
the way of physical laboratory, mechanical laboratory, or, 
in fact, any laboratory; and yet we considered that we were 
getting a very high grade of instruction, and we have as a class 
made good with it as a foundation for our life-work. Yet, after 
all, I know that if everything which has been added to curric- 
ulum and equipment since '84 were taken away and the ques- 
tion asked, "Would you do it again.?" the answer would be, 
"Certainly; for it is the best there was anywhere!" 

Professionally, I have never done a stroke of work in the 
course that I studied, as I was asked before graduation to re- 
turn to the M. I. T. as assistant in physics. There my work 
soon became the developing of what we then called the heavy 
side as distinguished from the lighter physical laboratory side 
of electrical engineering. I found that my training in how to 

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think and how to draw inferences was just as valuable in the 
new work as it was in my (supposed) chosen profession. My 
professional work outside of the Institute as electrical engineer 
and expert has been quite wide and varied, but it was very much 
handicapped by the regular Institute requirement that I must 
never connect the Institute name with any of my work. Since 
opening a regular office for electrical and expert work I have 
found so large and growing a field for my services that I have 
been tempted to regret sticking to the Institute so long. 

PuRiNTON, Arthur J. 

Manager of Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway 

Company. 
Residence, Kendallville, Indiana. 

Born November 29, 1862, in Lynn, Massachusetts. Married, 
July 5, 1887, to Eve B. Boyd, in Lynn, Massachusetts. Have 
four children: born July 22, 1888; December i, 1889; May 5, 
1895; and May 30, 1898. 

Have resided in Lynn, Boston, Brockton, and Palmer, 
Massachusetts; Stamford and Waterbury, Connecticut; Fair- 
mont, West Virginia; and Kendallville, Indiana. 

Prepared for Technology at the Lynn High School and 
Chauncy Hall School, Boston. 

After service as assistant and instructor in mechanical engi- 
neering at the M. I. T., have taken the expert course, Thom- 
son-Houston Electric Company; have been electrical engineer 
Brockton Street Railway Company; general superintendent 
Stamford Gas and Electric Company; secretary New England 
Engineering Company, Waterbury, Connecticut; treasurer and 
general manager Springfield & Eastern Street Railway Com- 
pany; general manager. Central Massachusetts Electric Com- 
pany; and general manager Fairmont & Clarksburg Traction 
Company. Since February, 1908, manager for receiver of 
Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway Company, Kendall- 
ville, Indiana. 

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Would "do it again," and would not prefer a college course 
instead, nor in combination with the Institute course. 

Courses at M. I. T. should give students some training in 
business methods and a broader education. 

Visited the Institute in 1904, and shall try to be there again 
in 1909. 

Weight in 1884, one hundred and forty-five pounds; in 1908, 
one hundred and sixty-five pounds. 

Rich, William J. 

Principal Examiner, United States Patent Office. 
Residence, 1468 Clifton Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Born June 28, 1859, in Pembroke, Maine. Married, Novem- 
ber 6, 1889, to Mary E. McDonald, in Lowell, Massachusetts. 
Children: Donald Upton, born August 26, 1890; Malcolm Nutt, 
born October 19, 1893; Katharine Mary, born June 12, 1895; 
Norman Prescott, born October 5, 1899, died July 5, 1901. 

From 1885 to 1886 resided in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; 
from 1886 to 1889, in Lowell, Massachusetts; from 1889 to 
date, in Washington, District of Columbia. 

Am a member of the B. B. French Lodge No. 15, F. and A. M.; 
Eastern Lodge No. 7, 1. O. O. F.; Washington Society M. I. T.; 
Sons of American Revolution; Maine Association of Washing- 
ton; charter member of University Club of Washington. 

Graduated from high school in Pembroke, Maine, and entered 
the Maine State College (now University of Maine) in February, 
1878, at the middle of the Sophomore year. Became assistant 
to Professor Richards in the Secretary's office at the Institute 
in June, 1880; later took entrance examinations; then other ex- 
aminations as I thought I could pass them, and finally became 
a regular student, in 1882. Not much to "retrospect" upon, ex- 
cept that I enjoyed it, partly thinking I might be in a better 
position to make my living, and partly because it meant work, 
and there is a certain satisfaction in doing a thing that is con- 
sidered hard work. After graduation was assistant to Professor 

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Rich 

C. S. Robinson 



Richards until February, 1885; then went to Leechburg, Penn- 
sylvania, as chemist to a small plant; then went to the Cambria 
Works in Johnstown, where I remained until 1886. Went to 
Lowell, Massachusetts, next, in the office of the Locks and 
Canals, and remained there until 1889. In October, 1888, took 
the civil-service examination for assistant examiner in the Pat- 
ent Office, and in the spring of 1889 received appointment as 
fourth assistant examiner; in 1893 was promoted to third assist- 
ant examiner; in 1894 to second assistant; in 1895 to first 
assistant, and in January, 1903, to principal examiner. Since 
April, 1907, I have somewhat come back to my old bearings, 
having been placed in charge of the Examining Division for 
metallurgy and the allied arts. Since coming to Washington 
have taken a course in law at the Georgetown University Law 
School; graduated in 1898 as LL.B., and, after a postgraduate 
course, as LL.M. Later took a course in patent law at George 
Washington University, and graduated in 1902. Am a member 
of the Bar of the District of Columbia Supreme Court and 
Court of Appeals. 

Would I "do it again" .? Yes; but, looking backward, would 
try to do it more thoroughly in some particulars. Would not 
take a college course instead; but for a man starting young 
enough, with sufficient money, I believe a good college course 
preliminary to the Tech work would be a good thing as a round- 
ing out of education that would give him a certain fitness 
for mixture with men of all kinds that he did not then get at 
the Tech. For one who can only take one course, or is over 
twenty when he starts, let college go in preference for the tech- 
nical work of the Institute. The particular use of my Tech 
education in business, as far as the course I took is concerned, 
was at the time I was in the Cambria Works, and also since I 
have been in my present division in the Patent Office. But the 
general training and education I got have been of great service 
at other times and places, in accordance with the well-known 
fact that a Technology graduate in a certain course is not 

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necessarily limited to that field, but is, or ought to be, capable 
of other things. As to "causes" leading to different lines of 
work, all I can say is that they, in most cases, were small or 
accidental. 

Have visited the Institute but very few times, — last time at 
reunion in 1904, — but shall attend the reunion in 1909 if I 
possibly can. 

Weight in 1884, about one hundred and forty pounds; now, 
about one hundred and eighty to one hundred and eighty-five. 
Circumference in 1884 about thirty inches; now, about forty. 
Sorry to say my height has not increased in same ratio. 

Robinson, Charles Snelling. 

Second Vice-President of The Youngstown Sheet and 
Tube Company, Youngstown, Ohio. 

Born March i, 1864, in Boston, Massachusetts. Married, 
December 8, 1887, to Viola B. Salter, in Joliet, Illinois. Chil- 
dren: Margaret Powell, born September 27, 1888; Frances 
Miiller, born June 11, 1890; Alice Elizabeth, born December 30, 
1893; Snelling Salter, born August 14, 1899; Katharine Warren, 
born January 11, 1901. 

Have resided in Joliet, 111.; Bessemer, Michigan; Duluth, 
Minnesota; Dunbar, Pennsylvania; Pueblo, Colorado; Denver, 
Colorado; and Youngstown, Ohio. 

Am a member of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
neers (1885); of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 
(1900), the American Society for Testing Materials (1908), 
and the Iron and Steel Institute (1901); of the Youngstown 
Club of this city; the Duquesne Club, Pittsburg; and a mem- 
ber of the National Advisory Board on Fuels and Structural 
Materials, appointed by President Roosevelt March 2, 1906. 

Prepared for the Institute at Tabor Academy, Marion, 
Massachusetts. 

Would I "do it again".? Yes; and would prefer a college 
course in combination with that of the Institute. 

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After completing the course in mining and geology, and 
graduating in 1884, was from 1885 to 1887 in the chemical and 
physical laboratory of the Joliet Steel Company, Joliet, 
Illinois; in 1887, with Mather, Morse & Company, as chemist at 
the Colby Mine, Bessemer, Michigan. From that time to 1889' 
conducted an assaying and mining business, as Robinson 
Brothers, in Duluth, Minnesota; then returned to Joliet, Illinois, 
as chief chemist. In 1892 went to Dunbar, Pennsylvania, as 
superintendent of blast-furnaces of the Dunbar Furnace Com- 
pany. Later in same year became superintendent of the blast- 
furnaces of The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, and during 
the following thirteen and a half years was successively assistant 
general superintendent and general superintendent of their 
Minnequa Works at Pueblo, and general superintendent and 
general manager of their iron department — this consisting of 
their iron and manganese mines and properties and limestone 
quarries in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, and Cali- 
fornia, their works at Pueblo, Colorado, and Laramie, Wyo- 
ming. As vice-president of The Minnequa Cooperage Company 
had charge of their saw-mills and cooperage plants for The 
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in Arkansas. As general 
manager of The Minnequa Land and Water Company, had 
charge of the development of their water-supply. Was also 
general superintendent of The Colorado and Wyoming Railway 
Company (belonging to The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company). 

Robinson, Theodore W. 

First Vice-President Illinois Steel Company. 
Chicago, Illinois. 

Born in Boston, June 7, 1862. Married in 1891. There are 
four children. 

As to offices held, I am director in a bank or two; have twice 
been honored with the presidency of the Northwestern Alumni 
Association; am a member of the Board of Education of Chi- 
cago; chairman of the Illinois Committee of the National Society 

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for the Promotion of Industrial Education; a member of the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers, and British Iron and 
Steel Institute; president of the Commercial Club of Chicago; 
also belong to the Chicago, Union League, University, Mid- 
Day, Glen View, Exmoor, and Evanston Clubs. 

At the age of fourteen entered Tabor Academy at Marion, 
Massachusetts, and up to the last six months of a four-year 
course my studies were preparatory for Harvard University. 
Then, with a clearer conception of what I really wanted, I 
changed the program and entered Technology in 1880, where I 
graduated in mining engineering; and here let me express the 
conviction that for the boy who wants a technical education, 
and can afford it, that training is the best which crowns three 
or four years of university life with a postgraduate course at a 
technical school like Technology. A character well rounded, 
acquaintance, ability to meet men and read men, are funda- 
mental factors to success, and are essentials that cannot be de- 
rived from books alone. Technology is doing well to devote 
more time to social engineering than it formerly did. 

The Robinsons for two generations before me had been iden- 
tified with the iron business, and to this fact I perhaps owe a 
more or less natural bent for the steel business, which I have 
followed since I left the Institute. 

In the fall of 1885 I entered the chemical laboratory of the 
Joliet Steel Company in Illinois, as an assistant, and in time 
became chief chemist there. Four years later took charge of 
the Bay View blast-furnaces at the Milwaukee Plant of the 
Illinois Steel Company; after three years here I left for the 
more western fields of Colorado. Spent seven years as general 
superintendent of the Pueblo Plant of The Colorado Fuel and 
Iron Company. These years taught me a lot about steel, and 
still further disillusioned my former ideas of the West. There 
is no better place to come from than New England; no better 
place to go to than to Boston; but I believe there is no environ- 
ment so conducive to the highest type of Americanism as the 

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ROTCH 

Ryder 



far West when backed by Eastern culture. After leaving 
Colorado, returned to the Illinois Steel Company in 1899 and 
for a few months was general superintendent of the Joliet Plant; 
then came to Chicago as general manager, and later became 
first vice-president of the company. 

Like others of the Class of '84, I am too old to be young and 
too young to be old; and, apropos of passing years, I have no 
gray hairs, though the task of numbering those remaining is not 
so difficult as it used to be. As to such other physical items as 
weight and circumference, I have to confess that 2 tt r still fails 
to show aldermanic proportions and my weight is, fortunately 
or otherwise, of the Cassius type. 

Few men attain all ideals; few have their ambitions satisfied. 
While not of the few, I have much to be thankful for. If I had 
to do it over again I would do many things differently, but I 
must confess I do not know exactly what things — large things, 
I mean. As to fault and error (their name is legion), requiescant 
in pace. 

RoTCH, Abbott Lawrence. 

Director of Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory; Professor 

of Meteorology, Harvard University. 
Office, 131 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
Residence, Boston and Milton, Massachusetts. 

Born in Boston January 6, 1861. A paternal ancestor, 
Joseph Rotch, a Quaker, founded the city of New Bedford, 
while the maternal grandfather, Abbott Lawrence, a prominent 
merchant of Boston and sometime United States Minister to 
Great Britain, was one of the founders of the city of Lawrence. 
Married, in 1893, Margaret Randolph Anderson, of Savannah, 
Georgia, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson. Children: Eliza- 
beth, born in 1895, died in infancy; Margaret Randolph, born 
in 1896; Arthur, born in 1899; Katharine Lawrence, born in 
1906. 

Preparatory education was received at the Chauncy Hall 
School, Boston, and on the continent of Europe. 

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Was a member of the International Jury of Awards for In- 
struments of Precision at the Paris Exposition of 1889, ^^^ ^^^ 
then created a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In 1902 
received from the German Emperor the Prussian Order of the 
Crown, Third Class, and in 1905, the Order of the Red Eagle, 
Third Class, in recognition of efforts to advance the knowledge 
of the atmosphere. Have been on expeditions to various parts 
of the world to observe total solar eclipses. For ten years was 
associate editor of The American Meteorological Journal, and 
have delivered two courses of lectures before the Lowell Insti- 
tute. In 1900 published a book, "Sounding the Ocean of Air," 
and am now about to publish another book entitled, "The 
Conquest of the Air," which deals with aerial navigation. Have 
written many articles for scientific journals. 

Am librarian of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 
a trustee of the Boston Society of Natural History; for eighteen 
years a member of the Corporation of the Institute and one of 
its representatives on the Board of Trustees of the Museum of 
Fine Arts; am a corresponding or honorary member of various 
foreign scientific societies, and member of several international 
committees. In 1891 received the honorary degree of A.M. 
from Harvard University, and in 1906 was appointed professor 
of meteorology there. 

In 1885 established and have since maintained the first 
private meteorological observatory in America, upon Great 
Blue Hill, ten miles south of Boston, and the highest land on 
the Atlantic coast south of Maine. The work of the observa- 
tory is mainly research; three assistants are now employed; the 
building has been several times enlarged. The observations and 
investigations are published in the Annals of the Astronomical 
Observatory of Harvard College. The Blue Hill Observatory 
has become one of the best known institutions of its kind in the 
world. Measurements were made of the height and velocity 
of drift of clouds, and kites first used to lift self-recording 
meteorological instruments. The staff of the observatory using 

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Sedgwick 

Stuart 

Sturgis 



registration, or sounding-balloons, have obtained the only 
meteorological observations up to ten miles above the Amer- 
ican continent. Have also cooperated with a French colleague 
in exploring the atmosphere over the tropical Atlantic by 
means of kites and balloons. 

Ryder, J. Peterson. 

Director of Physical Training, Drexel Institute. 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Born June 29, 1864, in East Boston, Massachusetts. Not 
married, alas! 

Have resided in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 

Am president of the Physical Training Association of Phila- 
delphia. 

Prepared for the Institute in the Boston High School. Worked 
like a dog to get anything into my brain. Have always regretted 
that I did not first go to college. Have visited the Institute 
every year, and will try to be there for the reunion in 1909. 

Sedgwick, Edward V. 

Manager of Mechanical Experts for the Galena Signal 

Oil Company. 
Franklin, Pennsylvania. 

Born June 5, i860, in Stockton, California. Never married. 

Have resided in United States of America, Mexico, South 
America, and Europe. 

Belong to the American Master Mechanics Association, 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Knights Templars, 
clubs in Mexico, South America, and Franklin, Pennsylvania. 
Have been superintendent of motive power and master me- 
chanic of different railways in the United States and Mexico, 
and manager of mechanical experts for the Galena Signal Oil 
Company in South America, Europe, Egypt, and the United 
States. 

Was a graduate of the Stockton High School, Stockton, Cali- 

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fornia, before becoming a student of the Institute, and would 
"do it again." Prefer the M. I. T. without combination of 
college course. Have visited the Institute but twice since 1884, 
in 1907 and 1909, but hope to attend the reunion in 1909. 

Present weight, two hundred and twenty pounds; height, five 
feet, ten inches; circumference, forty-five inches. In 1884, 
weight, one hundred and eighty pounds; height, five feet, ten 
inches; circumference, thirty-six inches. 

SiK, Yau Foke. 

Born in 1862. Died in 1882. Entered the Institute in Septem- 
ber, 1880, having received his preparation in the Holyoke High 
School. With other Chinese students he was recalled by the 
home government during the summer of 1 881. He was a mid- 
shipman on the training-ship Tang Woo, and went down with 
his ship during a naval engagement with the French at Mamoi, 
Foochow. 

Stebbins, Alfred. 

Construction Engineer. 

Residence, 95 Court Street, Newtonville, Massachusetts. 
Born in 1858. Lived in Roslindale, Massachusetts, during 
student days in the Institute. After graduation became elec- 
trician in Denver, Colorado; in 1886, electrician in New York; 
and in 1888, draftsman, and later assistant engineer, with the 
New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad; in 1889, assist- 
ant engineer with the New York & New England Railroad. 
Being in poor health, went west, and in 1890 was assistant 
engineer with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, in San 
Francisco; later as surveyor with the Pacific Improvement 
Company. In 1892 returned east and took up residence in 
Roslindale once more, later moving to Newton Highlands; 
and was engaged in the work of civil engineering until 1899. 
From 1 90 1 to 1904 was with the firm of Lockwood, Greene & 
Co.; then architectural engineer; in 1907 with Charles T. Main, 
and in 1908 with F. W. Dean, both mill engineers in Boston. 

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Stuart, Frederick Morton. 

Civil Engineer, with Massachusetts Highway Commission. 
Residence, 37 Knowles Street, Newton Centre, Massa- 
chusetts. 

Born May 29, 1863. Married Mabel White, in Sutton, 
Massachusetts, January 7, 1901. Have two children: Louise 
Cutler, born October 4, 1902; Helen, born May 15, 1908. 

Prepared for the Institute course at the Cambridge High 
School, and entered the Institute in 1880. 

In August, 1884, went to work for the town engineer of 
Brookline; left there in 1886 to work for the Burlington & 
Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska. Spent two years there 
on construction, location, and maintenance; then came east 
and was with the Town of Brookline and the West End Street 
Railway until June, 1895, when I became connected with the 
Massachusetts Highway Commission; and have since been en- 
gaged in the location and construction of state highways. 

Sturgis, Elliot T. 

District Superintendent, New England Telephone and 

Telegraph Company. 
Residence, Medford, Massachusetts. 

Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, September 12, 1863. Mar- 
ried Alice MacLeod Burbank, June, 1898. Children: Janet 
MacLeod, born July, 1903; Elliot T., Jr., born in August, 
1906. 

Childhood was spent in New York City. Early schooling 
was obtained in a country boarding-school in Connecticut, 
where I remained for more than six years, until nearly fifteen 
years old. The following two years attended school on Staten 
Island, New York, and in New York City, until entering the 
Institute, at the age of seventeen. 

In October, 1884, after graduation from the Institute, went to 
Montana and spent a few months at Bear Gulch, not far from 

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the National Park, where placer-mining operations were being 
carried on. 

In January, 1885, went to Butte, Montana, and worked for a 
few weeks in the large concentrating-works at Anaconda. Was 
afterward employed by William A. Clark as assayer in his 
Colusa Mine, near Butte, for about a year. Here I contracted 
arsenical poisoning and went to my brother's home in Chey- 
enne, Wyoming, to recover. After a few weeks there went to 
Cook City, Montana, in the employ of the Republic Mining 
Company, engaged in the mining and smelting of lead and 
silver ores. Spent a little more than a year here, and then re- 
turned east; subsequently went to Cheyenne, W^yoming, with 
the Union Cattle Company, where I remained until spring of 
1888, when I returned to Boston and entered the employ of the 
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. 

Sung, Mun Wai. 

Captain of a gunboat of the Nan Yang Fleet, Shanghai. 
Address, Care of L. W. Mow Tai & Co., No. 1536, 
Wusung Road, Hongkew, China. 

Born in Shanghai, China, in 1859. Married at Macao, in 

1882, to a Chinese lady, and have three daughters, born in 

1883, 1890, and 1892. 

Prepared for the Institute in the Somerville High School, 
Massachusetts. 

After returning to China from the United States I entered 
the Naval School at Foochow, passed my examinations, and 
went on board the training-ship Tang Woo as midshipman. 
Afterwards was transferred to the Peiyang squadron, and in 
time was successively promoted to sub-lieutenant, then gun- 
nery lieutenant. In 1894 I was appointed commander of the 
cruiser Kwang Cha; in that year war broke out between China 
and Japan; my ship was sunk in a naval engagement with the 
Japanese at Yalu. I was rescued by a fishing-boat. After the 
war I rejoined the navy until 1899, when I joined the Anglo- 

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Tyler 

Sung 

Walworth 



French Quicksilver Mining Company at Kweichow. I took 
charge of a mercury smelter, and remained there for eight 
years. Left Kweichow in 1907, coming back to Shanghai, 
and was appointed by Admiral Sah as commander of a gun- 
boat, the H. I. C. M. S. Kiang Lee. 

My present weight is two hundred and twenty pounds; 
thirty-eight inches chest measure. When in the United States 
I weighed one hundred and fifty pounds and measured thirty- 
four inches. 

" It gives me great pleasure to hear from you. Since I left the 
M. I. T. I have not heard from any of the American members 
of our Class. I should like very much to come to the twenty- 
fifth anniversary of our Class to see you all again, but I shall 
be unable to do so, as I cannot leave the command of my ship. 
. . . Should any member of our Class come to China, I shall 
be very glad to meet him." 

ToRii, Tadabumi. 

Member of House of Peers. 

33, Obancho, Yotsuya, Tokio, Japan. 

After his education in America, Viscount Torii was in the 
diplomatic service for a long time. — Reported by a Japanese 
Correspondent. 

Tyler, Alice I. (Brown). 

Newton Centre, Massachusetts. 

"Date place of birth marriage '* 

— a book filled with these commonplace happenings from every- 
body in the class ! Why, it's like reading page after page of 

"Solomon Grundy born on Monday," etc., etc. 

Not many are born to greatness, few have it thrust upon 
them, and, alas, fewer still achieve it. "A Humble Romance" 
by Mary Wilkins may be one thing; written by its heroine, a 

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quite different matter. Not even does the successive advent of 
four daughters into one's family add a halo of glory, though 
each bear the name of a reputable saint in the calendar, — 
Margaret of Boston, Elizabeth of Brookline, Catherine of New- 
ton, Frances Genevieve of Paris. Reputations are made in a 
wider world, and by solving other — and simpler ( ,?) — prob- 
lems than those of the home. The most zealous devotee of the 
jig-saw puzzle might shrink from some of these. If they make 
no heavy demands on chemistry, analytical or organic, the for- 
gotten drill in French and German may help one initiate Slav 
immigrants into the mysteries of kitchen English; while Gen- 
eral Walker's teachings as to "production, consumption, ex- 
change, and distribution'' find their analogues in household 
economics. S.B.'s may awe the public on the title-page of a 
book, but they never impress "The Servant in the House" or 
the naughty child in the closet. However, I'm glad of mine, 
even if I only see it at the time of spring cleaning. I hope all 
my girls may get one as good, or some equally effective prepara- 
tion for life's puzzles. 

Tyler, Harry W. 

Professor of Mathematics, M. I. T. 
Residence, Newton Centre, Massachusetts. 

Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, April i6, 1863. Married to 
Alice I. Brown, of Roxbury, June 20, 1887. Four daughters. 
Summer home is in Tuftonborough, New Hampshire, and 
favorite sport is mountaineering. 

The transfer from chemistry to mathematics on graduation 
was due to an unexpected invitation from Runkle, whose opti- 
mism in regard to an inexperienced candidate I should hesitate 
now to imitate. 

Spent two pleasant Wander jahre, 1887 to 1889, in Ger- 
many, mainly in the little university cities of Gbttingen and 
Erlangen. Returning to Boston after taking the doctor's de- 

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gree in 1889, my vocation was again determined by an unex- 
pected call, this time from President Walker, to take the secre- 
taryship of the Faculty, recently vacated by Munroe, '82. At 
the end of a year I preferred to resume teaching, and was ap- 
pointed assistant professor; but in November, 1891, again at 
the request of President Walker, accepted a new office, as secre- 
tary of the school, combining the functions of secretary of the 
Faculty, clerk of the executive committee of the Corporation, 
and general assistant to the President. My continued, though 
inactive, identification with the department was recognized by 
my appointment as associate professor in 1892, and professor 
in 1893. In 1 901 I resumed teaching to a limited extent as head 
of the Department of Mathematics. The secretaryship of the 
school was discontinued in June, 1906; my resignation as secre- 
tary of the Faculty was accepted in November following, with 
a highly prized expression of appreciation. Have since given 
full time to the work of the Mathematical Department, and 
am at present chairman of the Faculty committee on courses 
of instruction, which deals with all changes of the Institute 
curriculum. Of about 3,700 diplomas which the Institute had 
given before 1907, more than 2,900 bear my signature as sec- 
retary. 

Was secretary of the Alumni Association from 1892 to 1897, 
and have been a member of the Council of the Technology 
Club, with a brief interruption, from its foundation in 1896; 
also chairman of the Walker Memorial committee, which has 
secured more than ;? 100,000, mainly from alumni, for a gym- 
nasium as a memorial to President Walker. 

My membership list includes Society of Arts, American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, American Mathematical Society, 
Technology Club, Twentieth Century Club, Deutsche Mathe- 
matiker Vereinigung, Association of Teachers of Mathematics 
in New England, Society for the Promotion of Engineering 
Education, etc. Am president of a recently formed American 

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Federation of Teachers of Science and Mathematics, and of 
the Appalachian Mountain Club (for 1909). 

My weight has increased from about one hundred and forty 
to about one hundred and sixty-five, from which I leave my 
circumference to be computed. 

Walworth, John P. 
Manufacturer. 
Lawrence, Massachusetts. 

Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, November 22, 1 86 1. Mar- 
ried Florence A. Aldred, October 5, 1887, in Lawrence. Chil- 
dren: Margaret, born September 3, 1888; Joseph, born Jan- 
uary 4, 1895. 

Have resided in Lawrence; Bradford, England; and Chicopee, 
Massachusetts. 

Am a member of the Home Club (social); chairman of green 
committee, Merrimack Valley Country Club. 

My preparation for M. L T. was obtained entirely in Law- 
rence public schools. Was a special student, and for only one 
year at the Institute, but can say that I enjoyed that year, and 
would "do it again; '* but would prefer an entire course. 

After leaving the Institute in 1881, spent two years in the 
mill in Lawrence, learning the business; in 1883 went to Brad- 
ford, England, to the Technical School; in examination there 
in 1884, for all England, I won the second prize; in 1885, in 
the advanced examinations for textile students (England, Ire- 
land, Scotland), I was one of two to get first class certificates. 
Since my return to America I have worked as designer in sev- 
eral mills; also as manager; and since 1895 have been engaged 
in the manufacture of ladies' dress-goods and men's wear on 
my own account, and with my brother. 

Have never visited the Institute since my student days; then 
my height was five feet eight inches; my weight, one hundred 
and forty-four pounds. Height now is the same; weight, one 
hundred and eighty pounds. 

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Ward 

Weston 

A. W. Whitney 



Ward, Nahum. 

51 Claxton Street, Dorchester Centre, Massachusetts. 

Born in Roxbury, vicinity of Parker Hill, March 28, 1861. 
Married in 1897, in Copenhagen, to Mathilde Thomsen, a 
native of Denmark. Have one child, a girl. 

Have always claimed a residence in Boston, although about 
fifteen years ago spent nearly four years in Germany and Den- 
mark. Have made only three changes in residence during my 
entire life, and those were not outside of Boston. 

Of ojffices I have held quite a few, especially in minor religious 
and philosophical societies, and have found in them the greatest 
mental relief and comfort from the ever present materialism of 
daily life. At present am active chiejfly in the Masonic body and 
the Boston Esperanto Society. 

My preparation for M. I. T. was a three-years course at the 
Boston English High School. 

Looking back on the student years at Tech, I hardly care to 
comment, for I know that the methods of this institution have 
been successful; but it does seem to me now that the course 
was unnecessarily severe; that the object of such an institution 
is rather to train faculties for further development and acquire- 
ment than to stow away a certain definite amount of informa- 
tion in a four-years time limit. 

The first thirteen years after leaving the Institute I spent 
as factory manager of the N. Ward Company, later merged 
into the American Glue Company, and have been more or less 
identified with this company since; but the greater portion of 
my time has, by necessity of falling heir to undeveloped real 
estate in Boston, been devoted, since my factory career, to de- 
veloping the same — chiefly building and other work of a 
general real-estate nature. It seems to me that I have made 
constant use of the education obtained at the Institute, and I 
would "do it again" absolutely and decidedly. No college 
course for me, or any combination of it. There is no reason 
why a man cannot, in after-life, supplement the Institute course 

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by all sorts of broadening and developing influences. I have of 
necessity never been able to keep to a strict line of scientific 
work, and believe from experience the same must be true of 
most of our alumni. If the Lowell lectures may be counted as 
visits, I have been a rather regular visitor at Rogers Building 
since graduation. 

Present weight, one hundred and sixty pounds; circumference, 
thirty-eight inches. In '84, weight, one hundred and thirty-five 
pounds; circumference, thirty-four inches. 

Weston, Major-General John F. 

San Francisco, California. " 

Permanent address. Care of War Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Born in Kentucky, November 13, 1845. ^^ sixteen years of 
age was commissioned First Lieutenant of Fourth Kentucky 
Cavalry, November, 1861; promoted to Captain, January, 
1863, and to Major, November, 1864; received honorable mus- 
ter-out August, 1865. Was engaged in actions at Franklin, 
Tennessee; Triune, Shelbyville, Decker's Station, Broometon 
Valley; battles of Resaca and Chickamauga, and in operations 
from Atlanta, Georgia, to Gadsden, Alabama, in pursuit of the 
rebel cavalry; also in action at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and in 
the capture of Montgomery, and of the rebel steamboats on 
the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers. He was awarded a medal of 
honor for gallantry at Wetumpka, Alabama. In command of 
a small detachment ordered to destroy steamboats loaded with 
supplies for the enemy, he was stopped en route by an unford- 
able river. With five of his men he swam the river, captured 
two leaky canoes, ferried his men across, encountered and de- 
feated a force of the enemy, and on reaching Wetumpka found 
the boats anchored amidstream. He lured the captain ashore, 
and with the boat thus secured reached the steamers and de- 
manded and received their surrender. 

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Was appointed Second Lieutenant of Seventh Cavalry, 
August, 1867, and was promoted to First Lieutenant in No- 
vember, 1868; was appointed Captain and Commissary No- 
vember, 1875; also took a course, and graduated, from the 
Artillery School; became Major, August, 1892; a Lieutenant- 
Colonel in 1897; and Colonel and Assistant Commissary- 
General in April, 1898; Brigadier-General and Commissary- 
General in December, 1900. In the meantime he had served 
for about six months as a Brigadier of Volunteers. He was 
made a Major-General, U. S. A., in October, 1905, and trans- 
ferred back to the line. Sent to the Philippines, where he was 
next in command to General Wood, succeeding him upon the 
latter's return to the United States. In the winter of 1908- 1909 
was placed in command of the Department of California, with 
headquarters at San Francisco. Under the law he will be sub- 
ject to retirement on November 13, 1909. 

General Weston was at the Institute as a special student in 
chemistry from 1881 to 1884. He writes: **As to the benefits I 
derived from my time at the Institute: I could not well estimate 
them; that they were valuable and assisted in making me I have 
no doubt whatever. I pretty fairly inoculated the department 
in which I served with most of the theories and practices of the 
Institute." 



Whitney, Asa William. 

With Enterprise Foundry and Machine Works. 
Bristol, Tennessee. 

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1861. Married 
Helen Frances Stebbins, in Baltimore, Maryland, September 
24, 1890. Children: Wallace Brown, born September 13, 1891; 
James Stebbins, born December 4, 1893; Tracy Severson, 
born January 23, 1900; Helen Elizabeth, born February 14, 
1902. 

Have resided in Philadelphia and vicinity; in Providence, 

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Rhode Island; Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Lynchburg, Virginia; 
and Knoxville, Tennessee. 

A member of the Protestant Episcopal Church; life-member 
of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; formerly a member of 
the Philadelphia Foundrymen's Association, American Foun- 
drymen's Association, and the American Society for Testing 
Materials. 

Received preparatory education from tutors and private 
schools in Philadelphia; also had a year's special course in 
chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Looking backward for thirty years, I see, as I saw then, that 
my preparatory education was not sufficient, because of lack 
of physical and mental energy, or slowness in study and more 
delight in reading of all sorts and in outdoor pastimes. When, 
however, in 1886, I struck the puzzle of iron chemistry in 
A. Whitney & Sons works, and had to do something of value 
with the laboratory, or close it, I did the puzzle O. K. It has 
taken every bit of the education I absorbed to help me think 
out and work out, and force upon others, my ideas and those of 
others learned. From 1896 to 1903, with numerous foundries 
as an "iron doctor;" from 1898 to 1900, superintendent, Whit- 
ney Car Wheel Works; since 1903 until March, 1909, Secre- 
tary and Metallurgist for the Sanford-Day Iron Works, Knox- 
ville, Tennessee. Have made improved iron bottle-moulds, 
and mixtures of iron for special purposes, and have contributed 
extensively to technical publications. 

I would "do it again," and shall send my eldest son to the 
Institute if I can; would not have preferred a college course in- 
stead for myself. 

Visited the Institute in 1889, 1890, and 1901, when assistant 
to Professor Sauveur in Boston Testing Laboratories, and will 
try to be there again in June, 1909. 

Have no record of 1884 weight and measurements. At this 
time my weight is one hundred and seventy pounds; circum- 
ference, thirty-four inches. 

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Williams 



W. A. Whitney 
W. M. Whitney 



Yang 



Whitney, William A. 

Manager of the Emerson Paper Company, Sunapee, N. H. 
Residence, Claremont, New Hampshire. 

Born in Boston, December 12, 1861. Married in 1892 to 
Shirlie L. Robertson, of Concord, New Hampshire. Have one 
son, John, born in 1895. 

Graduated from the English High School in 1880, and was 
colonel of the Boston School Regiment during my last year in 
high school. Entered the Institute in 1880; passed my Fresh- 
man year with the Class of '84, having the honor to be ist Lieu- 
tenant of Company B. Then, on account of a physical break- 
down, had to be out of the Institute for three years; entered my 
Sophomore year with the class of '^'j^ with which I graduated 
in civil engineering. 

My first year out of school I spent at Skowhegan, Maine; and 
from there went to Sunapee, in 1888, to build a pulp-mill. 
When that was completed, built a paper-mill, and finally re- 
mained there, becoming manager of the plant. 

I feel that my course at the Institute has been of great benefit 
to me in my business career. 

Whitney, William M. 

Of Baxter D. Whitney & Son, Manufacturers of Wood- 
working Machinery. 
Winchendon, Massachusetts. 

Born in Winchendon, Massachusetts, March 27, 1863. Mar- 
ried Ada Macleod, May 9, 1894, in Waltham, Massachusetts. 
Children: twin girls, born April 25, 1895, and one boy, born 
July 22, 1896. 

Have resided in Winchendon since graduation from the In- 
stitute. 

The only society of which I am a member is the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, of which I am an associate 
member, having joined in 1885. 

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Preparation for the Institute was received in the Winchendon 
public schools, with a little outside tutoring; and I know of no 
reason why I should go to any other than Tech if I were to try 
it again. My boy intends to do the same thing, and I do not 
know how to advise him better. I believe that for any one who 
is naturally inclined to take things easy, a course at Tech is 
much better than a college course. I realize the advantages of 
the latter, but, all in all, I do not regret not having had one 
myself. 

My story since leaving the Institute is short. My father gave 
me work in his machine-shop after my graduation, and by 
strenuous ( ?) exertion on my part I have managed to hold on 
to the job to the present time. 

My health is good, and seems to be improving with age. In 
1884 I weighed about one hundred and thirty-five pounds; 
now weigh about one hundred and fifty-five. Chest and waist 
measures in 1884 were about thirty-three and thirty-two inches; 
now they are thirty-five and thirty-four inches. 

Have visited the Institute a number of times since gradua- 
tion, and shall certainly try to be there in June, 1909. 

Williams, Francis C, Jr. 

U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor. 
Sheridan, Wyoming. 

Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, December 5, 1863. Married 
Mattie W. Wulfjen, April 5, 1899, in Sheridan, Wyoming. 
Children: Eula S., born January 18, 1900; Francis C, 3d, born 
March 25, 1906. 

Have resided in Sheridan since 1894. Have held the offices 
of City Engineer about five years and County Surveyor four 
years. Was formerly a member of the Western Society of Engi- 
neers, Chicago. Am a member of the Wyoming Society of 
Engineers and Surveyors, Cheyenne, and De Molay Com- 
mandery No. 6, Knights Templar. 

Preparation for M. I. T. was obtained in the Roxbury High 

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School. After leaving the Institute started in on railroad work; 
and after having charge of construction work and of locating 
party in the field, thought I would like to work for myself; so 
in 1894 settled at Sheridan, where I have had a fair amount 
of success. For the government, I designed and superintended 
during construction a water system for Fort MacKenzie, Wyo- 
ming. For the city, I have had charge of the water and sewer- 
age systems during construction. Have been interested for a 
long time in real estate here, and since 1900 have been in the 
cattle business and belong to the Wyoming Stock Association. 

Have always thought a course at the Institute one of the 
best preparations. 

Have visited the Institute three or four times since '84, the 
last time in 1905, and will try to be there in 1909. 

Weight in 1884, one hundred and thirty-five pounds; in 1908, 
one hundred and forty-five pounds. 

Yang, Seu Nam. 

Born in 1862. Died in 1882. Prepared for the Institute at 
the Phillips Academy, Andover. With other Chinese students 
he was recalled by the home government during the summer 
of 1 88 1. He was a midshipman on the training-ship Tang Woo^ 
and went down with his ship during a naval engagement with 
the French at Mamoi, Foochow. 



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Statistics, 

The list of members of the Class on pages 7 to 13 includes 
one hundred and one names. The biographical sketches num- 
ber ninety-one, and from these the following statistical items 
have been extracted : 

Of eighty-three members of the Class identified with partic- 
ular professional courses of study, fifty-four, or nearly two- 
thirds, may be regarded as having followed lines of work cor- 
responding more or less closely with the undergraduate choice; 
forty-two, or nearly one-half, are presidents or managers of 
important industrial enterprises; nine are professors; four are 
officers in military or naval service; thirty mention their con- 
nection with professional societies — which is, however, doubt- 
less much more general than this number would imply. The 
returns as to membership in social clubs, churches, etc., are 
not sufficiently complete for statistical purposes. 

The following register of Marriages and Children shows 
that sixty-five have married, and that their families number 
one hundred and forty-eight living children, — seventy-five 
sons and seventy-three daughters. 

Of the one hundred and one in the class, seventeen are de- 
ceased, three having been killed in battle, and two accidentally. 



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Marriages and Children. 

Adams, Charles L. 

Married Emma S. Sellew, of Andover, 

Maine November, 1882 

Children: Richard Laban August 15, 1883 

Charles Robert November 30, 1884 

Appleton, Charles B. 

Married Marion Kingsbury, of Boston October 12, 1886 

Baldwin, Henry F.* 

Married Paulina du Pont, of Louis- 
ville, Kentucky February 12, 1895 
Children: Paulina du Pont January 13, 1896 
Henry du Pont July 18, 1898 
Margaretta du Pont August 16, 1901 

Bardwell, Fred L. 

Married Lizzie M. Hodgdon, of Booth- 
bay, Maine June 22, 1886 
Son: Charles Albion January 25, 1889 

Barnes, Amy 

Married Samuel T. Maynard, of Am- 
herst, Massachusetts June 16, 1892 
Children: Ednah Barnes February 13, 1896 
Edward Barnes May 29, 1898 

Bartlett, Thomas Harris 

Married Eugenia Smith, of Portland, 

Oregon November 25, 1891 

Daughter: Barbara Showalter September 25, 1892 

* Deceased. 

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Bennett, Henry D. 

Married Suzanne Wheeler Pratt,* of 

Brookline, Massachusetts November 5, 1902 

Daughter: Sarah Frances July 13, 1906 

BONILLAS, YgNACIO 

Married Mary M. Borton, of Tucson, 

Arizona June 29, 1885 

Children: Ygnacio SafFord June 15, 1887 

Lola Cecile February 10, 1889 

Victor* January 19, 1892 

Maria Martha May 27, 1893 

Bertha February 16, 1895 

Mario March 4, 1899 

Bridgman, Alfred F. 

Married Carrie L. Kincaid, of Sloats- 

burg, New York May 15, 1889 

Children: Harold Kincaid February 19, 1890 

Elizabeth July 15, 1891 

Robert Kincaid May 21, 1894 

Joseph Clark March 25, 1897 

Alfred Fearing June 28, 1900 

Brown, Alice I. (See Tyler, Harry W.) 

Callahan, William K.* 

Married Lida E. Ohmer,* of Dayton, 

Ohio September 5, 1891 

Daughter: Charlotte January 5, 1895 

Carr, W. Frank 

Married Elizabeth Gardner, of St. 

Paul, Minnesota 
Children: Walter Gardner January 19, 1893 

Alan Robert September 21, 1896 

Burton Kenneth November 25, 1897 

^ Deceased. 

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Carven, Christopher J. 

Married Rose A. Bernier, of Boston, 

Massachusetts September 14, 1897 

Children: C. Coleman March 4, 1899 

- R. Claire October 25, 1900 
Chase, Roscoe L. 

Married Nellie V. Colton, of Lowell, 



of 



of 



Massachusetts 
Daughter: Marion V. 
CoBURN, Daniel L. 

Married Maude Louise Wilkins, 

Middleton, Massachusetts 
Children: Ruth Winifred 
Leslie Otis* 
Dorothy May 
Jesse Theodore 
Donald Adelbert 
DoANE, Alfred O. 

Married Caroline D. Knowles, 

Yarmouth, Massachusetts 
Son: Henry Knowles 
DU Pont, T. Coleman 

Married Alice du Pont, of Wilmington, 

Delaware 
Children: Ellen Coleman 
Alice Hounsfield 
Francis Victor 
Renee de Pelleport 
Eleuthere Irenee 
Emery, Herbert C* 

Married Mary Louise Martindale,* of 

Indianapolis, Indiana 
Married Winifred Louise White, 
Richmond, Indiana 

* Deceased. 

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March 27, 1888 
December 28, 1888 



September 28, 1887 
August 9, 1888 
July 23, 1889 
January 8, 1892 
October 23, 1893 
May 25, 1 901 



November 19, 1888 
June 30, 1892 



January 17, 1889 
December 23, 1889 
December 15, 1891 
May 28, 1893 
May 25, 1897 
June 19, 1902 



January 28, 1892 



of 



March 27, 1898 



Fitch, Alfred L. 

Married Mary E. Foy, of North Easton, 



Massachusetts 


September 4, 1889 


FoNG, Pah Liang 




Married Miss Wong* 


1883 


Married Miss Loo* 


1891 


Married Miss Soon, of Canton, China 1904 


[ Children: daughter 


1891 


daughter 


1893 


son 


1905 


son 


1906 


son 


1908 


Five other children not living 




French, George L. R. 




Married Fannie Louise Smith, 


of 


Northampton, Massachusetts 


January 14, 1892 


Gill, Augustus Herman 




Married Mabel F. Shepard, of West 


Mansfield, Massachusetts 


September 2, 1897 


Children : Helen 


November 16, 190 1 


Paul Herman 


June 10, 1908 


Hammett, H. G. 




Married at Troy, New York 


1887 


One daughter 




Heywood, George Henry* 




Married Harriet G. Edgell, of Gardner, 


Massachusetts 


October 27, 1886 


Children: Seth B. 


, July 28, 1887 


John B. 


April 28, 1890 


Richard* 


April 23, 1 891 


George Henry, Jr. 


July 4, 1896 


HiLLYER, Edgar C. 




Married 


January 8, 1895 


■^ Deceased. 




[no] 





Hooker, Henry D. 

Married Mary T. Davenport, of Brook- 
lyn, New York January 7, 1886 
Children: Davenport May 13, 1887 

Henry D., Jr. January 25, 1892 

HoRTON, I. Chester 

Married Hattie C. Barbour, of Still- 
water, New York November 24, 1885 
Children: George Howard February 23, 1887 
Mildred Elizabeth July 15, 1892 

Jarvis, George T. 

Married Ruth Rositer Eliot, of Erie, 

Pennsylvania April 8, 1884 

Johnson, Frank Fisk 

Married Marie L. Gieson, of Denver, 

Colorado April 17, 1888 

Children: Albert Dorman October 14, 1889 

Clara Louise March 16, 1891 

Ellsworth Egbert January 14, 1896 

Kennard, William Parry* 

Married Alice Miller,* of Sterling, 

Illinois April 4, 1889 
Married Delfina de Castro, of Wauke- 

gan, Illinois May 20, 1891 

Children: Spencer Parry February i, 1893 

Richmond Parry September 15, 1896 

Kerr, William H.* 

Married Alice Maud Getchell, of 

Brookline, Massachusetts June 25, 1884 

Children: William Caruthers June 16, 1885 

Charles Phillips May 11, 1889 

Spencer Hall October 23, 1890 

* Deceased. 

[Ill] 



Harold Dabney October i6, 1892 

Margaret Graham February 7, 1894 

Alice Hall October 21, 1895 

Knapp, George F. 

Married Elizabeth J. Hawkins, of Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts May 28, 1888 
Children: Kenneth Johnston May 5, 1889 

Enid Elizabeth August 30, 1895 

KwoNG, King Y. 

Married Miss Liang, of Canton, 

China December, 1888 

Children: daughter November, 1896 

son May, 1899 

daughter April, 1901 

son March, 1907 

Lull, George F. 

Married Maude E. Weeden, of Buf- 
falo, New York February 19, 1903 

Lund. (See Stantial, Amy M.) 

Luther, William J. 

Married Minnie H. Niles, of North 

Attleboro, Massachusetts October 14, 1884 

Children: Howard B. September 21, 1886 

Warren B. March 17, 1888 

Helen D. January 14, 1895 

Lyle, David A. 

Married Charlotte Kirtland Cobb,* of 

New York City 
Married Alice Darr, of New York April 2, 1894 

Daughter: Anna March 3, 1879 

Maynard. (See Barnes, Amy) 

* Deceased. 

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Mead, Fred S. 

Married L. M. Gates, of West Acton, 

Massachusetts September i8, 1884 

Children: Fred S., Jr. September 18, 1885 

Edward A. March 30, 1896 

Mellen, Edwin D. 

Married Adele Lods Adams, of Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts September 5, 1883 
Children: Lucile Christina July 5, 1886 
James Edwin June 7, 1897 
Richard Adams June 3, 1900 
Adele Louise October 29, 1903 

Merryman, William C. 

Married Mary Manning Sylvester, of 

Portland, Maine 
Children: Alfred Palmer 
Helen Lemont 



January 3, il 
February 4, 1890 
September 8, 1891 



Morse, Philip S. 

Married Sarah Eliza Holden,* of 

Cleveland, Ohio March 4, 1886 

Children: Sterne May 31, 1887 

Robert Emery April 17, 1890 

Newell, Frederick H. 

Married Effie J. Mackintosh, of Milton, 



Massachusetts 
Children: Josephine 
Constance 
Roger Sherman 
John Mackintosh 

NoRRis, George H. 

Married Edith L. Forbush 
Children: Ralph Forbush 
Charles Brazer 

* Deceased. 

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April 3, 1890 
September 11, 1891 
October 21, 1896 
February 24, 1898 
April 20, 1904 

October 2, 1890 
March 9, 1892 
April 2, 1894 



O'Brien, William L."*" 

Married Emma Oswald, of Minneapolis, 

Minnesota May 14, 1889 

Daughter: Alice March 20, 1890 

Otis, Herbert F. 

Married Ethel Whiting, of Boston, 

Massachusetts September 2, 1893 

Children: James June 17, 1898 

Mary December 21, 1904 

Park, Dean W.* 

Married Alice E. Locke, of Boston, 

Massachusetts September 27, 1884 

Children: Carl J. October 13, 1885 

Harriet February 7, 1887 

Perin, Clifford* 

Married May Clagett, of Washington, 

District of Columbia 
Daughter: Margaret May 1894 

Pratt, A. Stuart 

Married Josephine A. Stewart, of West 

Newton, Massachusetts November 25, 1884 

Children: Eleanor Frances September 18, 1888 

Lucius Gale March 31, 1892 

Mabel Stewart March 8, 1894 

Alfred Stuart, Jr. March 2, 1897 

Puffer, William L. 

Married Anna W. Bailey, of Trenton, 

New Jersey August 8, 1888 

Children: Isabella W. May 17, 1889 

Lewis R. January 12, 1892 

Dorothy H. September 27, 1894 

Fannie B. November 16, 1899 

* Deceased. 

[114] 



PuRiNTON, Arthur J. 

Married Eve B. Boyd, of Lynn, Mass- 
achusetts July 5, 1887 
Children: Ruth July 22, 1888 

Ralph Boyd December i, 1889 

Helen May 5, 1895 

Robert Ferguson May 30, 1898 

Rich, William J. 

Married Mary E. McDonald, of Low- 
ell, Massachusetts November 6, 1889 
Children: Donald Upton August 26, 1890 
Malcolm Nutt October 19, 1893 
Katharine Mary June 12, 1895 
Norman Prescott* October 5, 1899 

Robinson, Charles S. 

Married Viola B. Salter, of Joliet, 

Illinois December 8, 1887 

Children: Margaret Powell September 27, 1888 

Frances Miiller June 11, 1890 

Alice Elizabeth December 30, 1893 

Snelling Salter August 14, 1899 

Katharine Warren January 11, 1901 

Robinson, Theodore W. 

Married Frances Steel, of Joliet, Illinois June 3, 1891 

Children: Edgar Steel May 31, 1892 

Frances Xouise October 5, 1903 

Theodore Winthrop December 30, 1904 

Sanger Powell December 30, 1904 

RoTCH, A. Lawrence 

Married Margaret Randolph Ander- 
son, of Savannah, Georgia November 22, 1893 

* Deceased. 

[115] 



Children: Elizabeth* 


1895 


Margaret Randolph 


June 14, 1896 


Arthur 


February i, 1899 


Katharine Lawrence 


May 26, 1906 


Stantial, Amy M.* 




Married James Lund, of Maiden, 


Massachusetts 


July 8, 1886 


Stuart, Frederick M. 




Married Mabel White, of Sutton, 


Massachusetts 


January 7, 1901 


Children: Louise Cutler 


October 4, 1902 


Helen 


May 15, 1908 


Sturgis, Elliot T. 




Married Alice MacLeod Burbank, 


of 


Portsmouth, New Hampshire 


June, 1898 


Children: Janet MacLeod 


July, 1903 


Elliot T., Jr. 


August, 1906 


Sung, Mun Wai 




Married at Macao, China 


1882 


Children : daughter 


1883 


daughter 


1890 


daughter 


1892 


Tyler, Harry W. 




Married Alice L Brown, of Boston, 


Massachusetts 


June 20, 1887 


Children: Margaret 


October 19, 1890 


Elizabeth 


October 27, 1892 


Catherine 


February 25, 1898 


Frances Genevieve 


March 18, 1905 


Walworth, John P. 




Married Florence A. Aldred, of Law- 


rence, Massachusetts 


October 5, 1887 


Children: Margaret 


September 3, 1888 


Joseph 


January 4, 1895 



* Deceased. 



[116] 



Ward, Nahum 

Married Mathilde Thomsen, of Copen- 
hagen, Denmark August, 1897 
Daughter: Mathilde Andrea September 15, 1898 

Weston, John F. 

Married Sarah E. Garvin, of Louisville, 

Kentucky December 23, 1874 

Children: Marie 

Kathleen 

Whitney, Asa W. 

Married Helen F. Stebbins, of Balti- 
more, Maryland September 24, 1890 
Children: Wallace Brown September 13, 1891 
James Stebbins December 4, 1893 
Tracy Severson January 23, 1900 
Helen Elizabeth February 14, 1902 

Whitney, William A. 

Married Shirlie L. Robertson, of Con- 
cord, New Hampshire October 27, 1892 
Son: John R. June 23, 1895 

Whitney, William M. 

Married Ada Macleod, of Waltham, 

Massachusetts May 9, 1894 

Children: Charlotte April 25, 1895 

Pauline April 25, 1895 

Richard Baxter July 22, 1896 

Williams, Francis C, Jr. 

Married Mattie W. Wulfjen, of Sheri- 
dan, Wyoming April 5, 1899 
Children: Eula S. January 18, 1900 
Francis C, 3d March 25, 1906 

[117] 



Necrology. 



Baldwin, H. Furlong 
Callahan, William K. 
Cheney, Edward M. 
CoDMAN, Henry S. 
Emery, Herbert C. 
Haines, Frank M. 
Heywood, George H. 
Kennard, William P. 
Kerr, W. Hall 
Kwong, Hein Chow 
Lund, Mrs. Amy (Stantial) 
O'Brien, William L., Jr. 
Park, Dean W. 
Perin, Clifford 
SiK, Yau Foke 
Smith, Frederic L. 
Yang, Seu Nam 



June, 1909 
May 10, 1907 
February 22, 1888 
January 13, 1893 
April 13, 1909 
June I, 1905 
May 17, 1898 
July 21, 1906 
June 16, 1895 
1889 

February 11, 1888 
September 19, 1906 
May 5, 1909 
May, 1902 
1882 

June, 1892 
1882 



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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
from 1880 to 1909. 

A RETROSPECTIVE SKETCH. 

IT would be interesting to know why, in 1880, when our 
now widely famed Institute had graduated but thirteen 
classes, numbering hardly more than two hundred and 
fifty students, some eighty of us — or our parents — chose it for 
our higher education. The earliest of these graduates had been 
out only as long as the present class of '97, so that the school 
could have counted relatively little on the professional eminence 
of its alumni; its financial condition had been discouraging, 
and even, in the estimation of some of its friends, well-nigh 
desperate. A president had but recently retired in broken 
health, to be succeeded, until a new choice should be made, 
by the venerable founder. What was there in all this situation 
to attract an entering class larger than any recently preceding 
one .? Was it the personal efforts and influence of a small group 
of steadfast supporters; was it dissatisfaction with the narrow 
conservatism of the older colleges — a conservatism which has 
so long and so often deplored the narrowness imputed to the 
schools of technology; was it respect for the Institute standards 
of effort, attainment, and conduct; or was it, finally, the general 
ripeness of the time for an education which, recognizing as 
professions many occupations based on applications of science 
to human needs, should prepare young men, however imper- 
fectly, for life as a whole, and not merely for that fraction of it 
which remains after eliminating vocation and the physical 
world .? We shall not go far astray if we attribute our coming 
to the Institute to some or all of these general causes. 

[119] 



We came not merely from neighboring homes; among the 
sixty-two classed as " regular '* in the catalogue, thirty-seven 
belonged in Massachusetts, six came from China, one from 
Japan, the remaining eighteen from twelve other States of the 
Union. China has not since sent so large a number until near 
the present time. 

What did we find .? At first a great day-school with classes 
in mathematics, drawing, French, chemistry, English, and 
military drill. In mathematics and English our best lessons 
were Runkle and Atkinson themselves, — two differently ad- 
mirable types of an older generation, perpetually youthful in 
their enthusiasms. In chemistry — rather than in military 
drill — we had our discipline, the rigor of which most of us 
as survivors may now appraise philosophically. Runkle, Atkin- 
son, Luquiens, and Nichols, — all are dead. Mudge left the 
Institute in 1881; Mrs. Stinson is still a faithful laboratory 
mother; and John Thompson still keeps the keys of Rogers. 

Class politics appealed to some of us, athletics to some, city 
pleasures to some. Some were even distracted by all of these. 
Otis became our first president. Haines, du Pont, Sturgis, and 
others broke — or cracked — athletic records. Cumner and 
Alexander, of '83, with our own Pratt, Puffer, Whitney, and 
French, as military veterans, inspired our awe and racked our 
ear-drums. 

Near the end of our first year — in May, 1881 — came an 
epoch-marking event in the Institute history, — the election of 
General Francis Walker to be our president in succession to our 
founder, whose name we honored, but whose venerable form 
we hardly knew. In the succeeding fall — and increasingly as 
time passed — we were dissociated by our diverging professional 
courses, but held together by common work with Otis, Atkin- 
son, Niles, and Walker. Our distribution in the second year 
among the professional departments then extant was significant 
of their real or supposed strength and eligibility. Civil Engi- 
neering enlisted seven, and graduated five; Mechanical Engi- 

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Rogers 

RUNKLE 



Walker 
Henck 



neering began with seven, and graduated six; Mining Engi- 
neering and Chemistry, beginning each with nine, graduated 
thirteen and twelve respectively. 

The middle of our course was marked by the most solemn 
event in the history of the Institute, — the death of Dr. Rogers, 
on his farewell appearance as president at the graduation of the 
class of '82. 

The vigor of our new president soon made itself felt in many 
directions. The old drill-shed and gymnasium — including a 
certain refectory of fragrant memory — gave place to a large 
building (subsequently named for President Walker), which 
carried out with lamentable completeness externally as well as 
internally the principles of the new mill construction. The 
extensive Kidder Chemical Laboratories of this building gave 
fine opportunities to the miners and chemists who now formed 
the bulk of our class. The following June we scattered; and 
as a class have only the subsequent common history repre- 
sented by successive annual directories and class dinners. On 
the adoption of the class constitution in 1884, Rotch became 
secretary; Purinton, vice-secretary. Tyler became secretary in 
1885; Appleton, in 1887; Holder, in 1888; Bennett, in 1891; 
Gill, in 1896; Puffer, in 1903; Tyler, in 1909. 

The office of vice-secretary seems to have been a sinecure 
until 1898, and to have remained vacant since that time. 

In the first register of graduates, twenty-five of our thirty-six 
remained in Massachusetts, — fourteen of them at the Institute, 
three engaged in teaching elsewhere, four in railroad work, etc. 

Some points in the general history of the Institute of con- 
spicuous importance or of special interest to our Class may be 
briefly noted: 

In 1885 — whether on account of the immaturity of the class 
graduating in that year does not clearly appear — the age- 
requirement for admission was advanced from sixteen to seven- 
teen years. In the same year Professor Wing resigned, at the 

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end of ten years' service. The number of graduates of other 
institutions is mentioned by President Walker as nineteen. In 
referring to the recent death of Professor Nichols (July 14, 
1886), the president says: "As a teacher, Professor Nichols was 
a clear expositor, strong and terse in argument, apt in illustra- 
tion, neat and effective in manipulation. To faithful and ambi- 
tious students he w^as, in his calm, steady, lofty way, a constant 
source of inspiration and encouragement. As a disciplinarian, 
dealing with mixed classes of young men, often ill-trained in 
their previous studies and exercises, and not always duly atten- 
tive and diligent, he was, let it be said in that spirit of truthful- 
ness of which his own character and career afford so shining an 
example, somewhat severe. Dealing heroically with his own 
life, health, hopes, pleasures; setting for himself a lofty standard, 
and holding himself unflinchingly up to its full height, he was, 
in a degree, deficient in toleration for faults and errors in half- 
formed or ambiguous characters." 

In 1888 the School of Mechanic Arts was discontinued, the 
object sought by its foundation in 1876 having been to a great 
extent attained. The Technology Quarterly and The Technology 
Architectural Review were established in the same year by stu- 
dents. The Legislature made an appropriation of ^100,000 for 
the Institute. The first tract of land on Trinity Place was pur- 
chased in May, 1888, and a year later the erection of an engi- 
neering building was begun, with the first adequate provision 
for an engineering laboratory. On the occasion of Professor 
Atkinson's retirement at this time the president writes: "A 
member of the original staff of the Institute, Professor Atkinson 
has been the teacher of every student who has graduated from 
the school. His genial ways and cordial, unaffected interest in 
young men have to an unusual degree made his pupils his 
friends. At the beginning, no member of the Faculty had a 
heartier faith than he in the kind of education which the Insti- 
tute had undertaken to provide; and his pride in the school 
and his devotion to its interests continued unabated to the end. 

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i?S^ 



.'^# # 









^. 






Ware 
Ordway 



n 







Osborne 



Atkinson 
Richards 



Professor Atkinson's lectures were always interesting, and, to 
the student of a decided turn to politics and historical study, 
they were highly suggestive and inspiring." 

The Institute quarter-century was marked by a commemora- 
tive address by Mr. Augustus Lowell, of the Corporation, on 
graduation-day, 1890, when for the first time the class exceeded 
one hundred. The class of '91 included the first graduates in 
Chemical Engineering and in Geology; the class of '92, the 
first in Sanitary Engineering. In 1 891-1892 the students first 
numbered more than one thousand. An extension of the Engi- 
neering Building in 1892 provided new quarters for the archi- 
tects, with incidental relief for physics and chemistry. 

The ancient slogan " Papyrographs must go" is recalled by a 
statement of the gradually increased use of printed notes from 
1888 to 1892. 

In 1893, as a necessary measure of protection, the Corpora- 
tion expended nearly ^300,000 in the purchase of fifty thousand 
feet of additional land between Clarendon Street and Trinity 
Place, — including a part still under lease, — for future develop- 
ment. The deficit for the year amounted to nearly ;?33,ooo. 

In 1894 a considerable portion of the final examinations in 
the lower years were discontinued, records being since based 
on term work, and the mark H was abolished, on the ground 
that "well is enough." An application for State aid in 1895 
was fortunately met by an appropriation of ;?25,ooo, which has 
been continued since that time. In the same year the first 
naval architects were graduated. 

It is not without melancholy significance that President 
Walker's final report, presented less than a month before his 
death, is devoted largely to outlining plans for a new building, 
which it had been hoped would relieve severe congestion, but 
which had to be for the time given up on account of unforeseen 
financial difficulties. Only a few months after his death the 
Institute received from the estate of Hon. Henry L. Pierce by 
far the largest bequest in its history, and the building plans 

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were more than fulfilled. The Technology Club was founded 
in 1896. The Treasurer's Report acknowledges a gift of fe,ooo 
as a William Hall Kerr Library Fund from the widow of our 
classmate. 

The newly acquired financial strength of the Institute under 
President Crafts proved most fortunate, as a safeguard against 
such a check of development as so often attends a sudden 
change of head. The movement for an alumni Walker Memo- 
rial was initiated in 1897. 

A most important development of the new association of 
class secretaries was The Technology Review, first issued in 
January, 1899. 

The year 1898 was aptly termed by the president ^^ annus 
mirabilisy" with accessions of nearly a million dollars and an 
announcement of the new Austin bequest of ;?400,ooo. An un- 
availing effort for an "alliance" initiated by Harvard Univer- 
sity extended over many months. The list of alumni serving 
in the Spanish War includes, of '84, besides Lyle and Weston, 
only Appleton. 

In 1900 President Crafts laid down responsibilities which he 
had assumed with reluctance, and Dr. Pritchett succeeded to 
the presidency. A final purchase was made of land adjoining 
that previously held on Clarendon Street and Trinity Place. 

In 1 90 1 the United States began sending Annapolis graduates 
to the Institute for a three-year course in Naval Architecture. 
Professor Runkle died July 8, 1902, his death taking away 
"one strong and tender tie which linked us to the past.'' A 
general reorganization of administrative work, previously 
much centralized under the secretary of the school, included 
the appointment of a dean, a registrar, and a recorder, as well 
as a medical adviser. The Lowell Laboratory of Electrical 
Engineering, the first of recent temporary buildings, was erected, 
the question of location having now become somewhat acute. 
A separate department of Electrical Engineering was consti- 
tuted. The tuition fee was advanced to ;?250, and the entrance 

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Nichols 
Hyatt 



Wing 



Otis 

NiLES 



requirements at the same time increased. The announcement 
of these changes was followed, in advance of their taking 
effect, by a record-breaking attendance of more than i,6oo. 

More recent developments so far as they would have par- 
ticular interest for the men of '84 are doubtless sufficiently 
fresh in mind to need but slight recapitulation: the failure to 
secure a clear title to the Boylston Street land, the abandon- 
ment of a new and apparently hopeful plan for "alliance" with 
Harvard, the first Technology Reunion of 1904, the retirement 
of President Pritchett, and the somewhat protracted interreg- 
num during which the acting presidency has been so compe- 
tently held by Dr. Noyes, of '86. 

The establishment of the research laboratory of physical 
chemistry and of the sanitary research laboratory and sewage 
experiment station in 1903, and of the research laboratory of 
industrial chemistry in 1908, may also be noted. 

In comparison with the Institute of twenty-five years ago, 
the Institute of to-day is, it goes without saying, in all dimen- 
sions bigger. It is also in certain important respects better. 
Education in engineering and applied science is now less an 
uncertain experiment than twenty-five years ago. If something 
has been lost of the inspiring freshness of pioneer work and of 
the closer contacts of a small school, more has been gained in 
experience, in momentum, in the criticism and support of our 
alumni, in all that goes with maturity. It is hard to appreciate 
improvements which have come about gradually, perhaps 
even imperceptibly. If one could in any manner bring back the 
conditions of '84 in 1909, the impossibility of adjusting the 
present Institute to them would indicate the magnitude of the 
change. 

Among many specific contrasts of our terminal periods, the 
following may be mentioned: 

We are now near the heart of the city rather than on its edge. 
A change of location might leave us as accessible as then. 

College and scientific school graduates in the Institute now 

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number about one in seven; then, about one in twenty-five. It 
should not be inferred that the Institute will become a grad- 
uate school, but the change thus far is salutary. 

In our time "general studies" were represented by Walker 
and Atkinson alone; now there are seven teachers of English, 
two of history, two of economics. 

Then graduate work was merely an aspiration of the dim 
future; now our masters of science number more than one hun- 
dred; our doctors of philosophy, six; chemical and sanitary re- 
search have become important, and progress is making in other 
lines. 

Then the student's welfare necessarily depended mainly on 
himself, and was by no means certain to survive the four-year 
strain; now there are fraternities, professional societies, and so 
many clubs and miscellaneous organizations that even an en- 
cyclopedic Technique can scarcely contain them. 

Officially, student welfare is the concern of the dean, the 
medical adviser, an instructor in physical training, an athletic 
coach, and even, recently, of special committees of the Corpo- 
ration and of the Alumni Council. Pending the erection of the 
Walker Memorial — after a decision as to location — the 
Technology Union, largely under student management, is a 
valuable experiment-station. 

With all these advances the Institute remains, as in the time 
and in the words of President Walker, "a place for men to 
work and not for boys to play." As to the future, the Institute 
has justly high expectations. It has ripe experience, high repu- 
tation, strong organization, a competent Faculty, an alumni 
body of exceptional strength and loyalty — everything, indeed, 
but funds. If we do not ourselves chronicle the developments 
of the next quarter-century, we may confidently predict an 
honorable review in the anniversary book of the class of 1909. 



[126] 









Whittaker 

VOSE 



Lanza 



Cross 
Clark 



Letters, 

From Professor Richards, Secretary of the Faculty, 
AND Mr. J. P. Munroe, Registrar in 1884. 

I DO not seem to find anything worth saying for your class- 
book. Most of the things that come to mind are after gradua- 
tion. I have a vivid memory of the vernacular of Captain 
Lyle, and of the funny and interesting stories he used to tell. 
I remember the droll wit of Bunce. How Wesson persuaded 
the young man to take in half the party at Shady Valley, Vir- 
ginia, if we would promise not to swear. How Snelling Robin- 
son in the little cabin asked if it would be safe to smoke, and I 
whispered to him, "Wait a bit;" when presently the old grand- 
mother remarked, " Have n't any of you young gentlemen some 
tobacco for my pipe ?" and then I whispered, "I guess you can 
smoke." How we had just persuaded the old people to take 
in half the party at the other house when T. C. du Pont nearly 
scared the wits out of them and broke up diplomatic rela- 
tions by vaulting over the fence and plumping himself down by 
their side to light his cigarette. And how Mrs. Ordway soothed 
the old people, and won them back, and gained admission for 
the other half of the party to the other house. 

On another occasion on that memorable trip to Virginia, I — 
the deluded teacher that I was! — thought how fine it would be 
to invite the party to the meeting of the American Institute of 
Mining Engineers at Luray. When the first paper was a quarter 
read I looked back, to see my boys all gone. I went after them 
to see what was up, and found them trying to take a swim in a 
Virginia river with water ankle deep. Mrs. R. had a great 
scare when, in the newly opened limestone cave, she asked me 

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to pick and T. C. du Pont to catch the stalactites; and when 
they came she saw him go down, and she thought I had brought 
the earth on him and that he had started for China. 

Sincerely yours, 

Robert H. Richards. 



Replying to your courteous letter of request, it seems super- 
fluous to write in praise of the Class of '84, since the whole In- 
stitute is to join, next June, in an elaborate reunion to cele- 
brate the fact that twenty-five years before that date Technology 
and Eighty-four parted company. 

Had I kept — as I should have done — a diary of those 
salad days, I could doubtless confound you and your contempo- 
raries with a startling assortment of academic skeletons. Fortu- 
nately for you, I did not, and '84 having made so good a record 
since, those earlier memories have been quite blotted out. 

There still lodge in my mind, however, two impressions of 
that early time: a general one of extraordinary discomfort and 
confusion in the discharge of my duties, and a specific one of 
the first infliction of myself upon a public that was afterwards 
to be so frequent a suff"erer. 

As you doubtless remember, the entire administrative force 
was at that time herded like a flock of sheep in a single room, 
divided by flimsy partitions into three unequal stalls. The 
president occupied the smallest and worst section of this alleged 
office, and his important labors were dimly lighted by one- 
third of one window; the bursar luxuriated in a compartment 
about eight feet square; while the secretary, his one clerk, and, 
at certain periods of the year, the entire body of students, occu- 
pied the outer section. How General Walker kept his head, 
and especially his patience, in such a Babel has remained a 
mystery; yet I never heard him complain or even suggest that 
his accommodations were not luxurious. 

It was in those days, too, that I made my first incursion into 

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public speech, — in an attempt to acknowledge some sort of 
facetious gift made to me, as secretary, at one of the extremely 
rare social occasions of those primitive times. I have forgotten 
the nature of the gift, and my feeble remarks immediately 
found oblivion; but the torture which I endured is as vivid as if 
experienced yesterday. 

Though their misdeeds have joined my first speech in the 
blessed waters of the forgotten, the faces and characteristics of 
most of the men of '84 have vividly survived. Singly, and as a 
composite photograph, they make a most agreeable showing in 
the galleries of recollection; and I hope they look down upon 
me from their several halls of fame with some measure of that 
brotherly feeling with which I gratefully and affectionately gaze 
up at them. 

With best wishes for the most successful of anniversary 
gatherings, I am, 

Yours very sincerely, 

James P. Munroe. 



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The Twenty-fifth Anniversary 
Reunion. 

[The preceding pages were written in advance of the reunion. Publica- 
tion has been delayed, however, in order to include an account of this notable 
occasion.] 

By the generous courtesy of du Pont, his steam yacht Tech 
reached Marblehead from Wilmington on Friday, June 4. On 
Saturday, in a drenching northeaster, fifteen members of the 
Class, three wives, one son, and one daughter gathered at the 
Eastern Yacht Club and the New Fountain Inn. The detach- 
ment at the Yacht Club occupied itself with chemical experi- 
ments (involving the use of beakers rather than test-tubes, so 
far as could be learned), while the family parties on the oppo- 
site shore renewed their German in conversation with landlord 
Unverhau. 

Sunday being "bright and fair," seventeen reported for sea 
duty; and after a somewhat undulatory passage, dropped 
anchor in the fragrant harbor of Gloucester, to enjoy a lunch- 
eon. The morning was chill, but the return with lighter breezes 
among the many yachts of Salem and Marblehead along the 
fine North Shore proved delightful. Most of the company took 
trains for Boston, but four remained for the night. 

On Monday, June 7, the Class was well represented at 
the imposing inauguration exercises of President Maclaurin, 
Robinson, Rotch, and Tyler being on the platform and a num- 
ber of others among the Faculty and graduates on the floor. 

As soon as possible after the close of the exercises a goodly 
company again sought the yacht for a harbor-cruise. There 

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were present some thirty members of the Class, and of their 
famihes; also Mrs. S. W. Holman. 

Monday evening class history repeated itself by an assem- 
blage at Young's Hotel, in a dining-room reeking with tradi- 
tions of a quarter-century ago, of not less than thirty-two mem- 
bers of the Class, with Captain Graham of the Tech as du 
Font's representative. 

Brief speeches were called for from each member of the 
Class in turn; but Mr. F (ominous initial) and the sec- 
retary, with their frequent garrulous interruptions, prevented 
most of the Class from providing their share of this entertain- 
ment; and it was necessary to imagine what the others would 
have said by a twenty-five per cent sample. On motion of 
Bridgman, it was unanimously resolved by a standing vote 
that: 

"We the Class of '84, at dinner assembled, extend to our 
classmate du Pont our thanks and appreciation for the use of 
the yacht Tech during the Technology celebration. 

"And we express the wish and belief that the cause which 
prevents his being with us may soon be removed." 

Letters were read from du Pont, Weston, Sung, Kwong, 
Bunce, Hammett, Boardman, Johnson, and Emerson. 

The Class then divided itself into unequal segments, one 
proceeding to Governor Draper's reception at the State House, 
the other remaining on the scene of the dinner until uncertain 
hours, large or small. 

A most agreeable episode of the evening was the welcome 
visits of the classes of 1894 and 1906, also dining in the hotel. 

Tuesday at eleven found twenty of the Class, with several 
guests, again in the fishy purlieus of Atlantic Avenue, board- 
ing the yacht for Nahant, where an excellent shore dinner was 
enjoyed, at the Relay House. 

At dusk the alumni gathered in the Trinity Place headquar- 
ters, marching by classes to Symphony Hall, and entering one 
class at a time, with the usual demonstrations. Both floor and 

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balconies were packed. The musicians on the platform com- 
peted unsuccessfully with various forms of pandemonium, 
some brought from Nahant, others apparently extemporized 
for the occasion. Confetti filled the air, and gracefully con- 
cealed the baldness or adorned the grayness at the tables of the 
older classes. In the course of the evening the young son of 
Bullard — the composer of the "Stein Song" — was brought 
to the platform. Notable demonstrations greeted Governor 
Draper, Dr. Noyes, and President Maclaurin. 

At about ten a hoarse but still enthusiastic crowd wended its 
devious way among the electric cars and automobiles of Hunt- 
ington Avenue to the Rogers Building, where, under the leader- 
ship of E. M. Hagar ('93), of Chicago, cheers were given for 
the successive presidents of the Institute, whose names illu- 
minated the front of Rogers; also for Governor Draper, Pres- 
ident Webster of the Alumni Association, and other favorites. 

Wednesday — the last of four days of the finest possible 
weather — was spent at Nantasket, members of the Class, 
with wives, children, and friends, to the number of thirty- 
eight, making the trip on the Tech to Hull, and from there by 
electrics and automobiles to Nantasket. The Class committee, 
being perhaps too much impressed with the gravity of a twenty- 
fifth anniversary, had not arranged in advance for a "stunt;" 
but some of the more western and some of the more youthful 
members came nobly to the rescue and redeemed the Class 
from any imputation of premature senility. Under the leader- 
ship of Pratt, the Class formed in open column of fours with 
red and gray banners and streamers, and marched behind the 
band to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne." On reaching the cen- 
ter of the green there was a lusty cheer : 

Eighty-four, Eighty-four, 

We are good for a few years more. 

The stunts of other classes proved of great interest, and the 
day at Nantasket was most enjoyable. 



The grand banquet in the evening, at Symphony Hall, was 
attended by sixteen members of the Class, bringing the reunion 
to a most brilliant and successful close. 

The following members of the Class were present during 
some part of the reunion: C. L. Adams; C. B. Appleton; F. L. 
Bardwell and Mrs. Bardwell; H. D. Bennett; C. C. Bothfeld; 
A. F. Bridgman, Mrs. Bridgman, and a daughter; R. L. Chase> 
Mrs. Chase, and a daughter; D. L. Coburn; S. S. Dearborn; 
A. O. Doane, Mrs. Doane, and a son; A. L. Fitch and Mrs. 
Fitch; G. L. R. French and Mrs. French; A. H. Gill; J. G. 
Holder; H. D. Hooker; G. T. Jarvis and Mrs. Jarvis; G. F. 
Lull; F. S. Mead; E. D. Mellen and Mrs. Mellen, two daugh- 
ters, and two sons; G. H. Norris; A. S. Pratt; C. O. Prescottj 
W. L. Puffer and two daughters; A. J. Purinton; W. J. Rich; 
C. S. Robinson; T. W. Robinson and a son; A. L. Rotch; 
E. V. Sedgwick; F. M. Stuart and Mrs. Stuart; H. W. Tyler, 
Mrs. Tyler, and four daughters; W. A. Whitney. The Class 
committee for the reunion consisted of Messrs. Bennett, 
Mellen, and Pratt. 

It is noteworthy that every man of this list attended the 
Class Dinner, the number being identical with that at the din- 
ner in 1884. 

It was the general opinion that every effort would be made 
to bring as many together in 1 9 14, with a still larger representa- 
tion of their families, and possibly a few more of the silent 
partners of Boston and vicinity. 



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